I think I'm -1 on a "locale" encoding because it refers to different actual encodings depending on where and when it's run, which seems surprising, and there's already a more explicit way to achieve the same effect.
The documentation on .getpreferredencoding() says some scary things about needing to call .setlocale() sometimes but doesn't really say when or why. Could any of those cases make "locale" do weird things because it doesn't call setlocale()? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
