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Author loewis
Recipients Arfrever, loewis, pitrou, sdaoden, vstinner
Date 2011-01-27.19:31:02
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In-reply-to <1296154221.96.0.598359216981.issue11022@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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>> Both cases indicate the users desire to change a specific locale
>> setting and thus - of course - all the changes which that implies!
>> So why should there be a difference?
> 
> I don't think it's intentional. I would be +1 on changing to getpreferredencoding(False).

That won't actually work. If you always use the C library's locale
setting, most scripts will run in the C locale, and fail to read text
files properly.
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Date User Action Args
2011-01-27 19:31:04loewissetrecipients: + loewis, pitrou, vstinner, Arfrever, sdaoden
2011-01-27 19:31:02loewislinkissue11022 messages
2011-01-27 19:31:02loewiscreate