*** site.py~	Mon Dec 30 19:06:30 2002
--- site.py	Tue Jan 21 17:19:51 2003
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*** 281,286 ****
--- 281,301 ----
  
  __builtin__.help = _Helper()
  
+ # On Windows, some default encodings are not provided
+ # by Python (e.g. "cp932" in Japanese locale), while they
+ # are always available as "mbcs" in each locale.
+ # Make them usable by aliasing to "mbcs" in such a case.
+ 
+ if sys.platform == 'win32':
+     import locale, codecs
+     enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+     if enc.startswith('cp'):            # "cp***" ?
+         try:
+             codecs.lookup(enc)
+         except LookupError:
+             import encodings
+             encodings._cache[enc] = encodings._unknown
+             encodings.aliases.aliases[enc] = 'mbcs'
  
  # Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation.  The
  # default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can