Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > >> 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.
Well, is it any different from today? That's an innocent question: I don't know if there's a difference between "C locale" and "empty locale". ---------- title: locale.setlocale() doesn't change I/O codec, os.environ -> locale.setlocale() doesn't change I/O codec, os.environ _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11022> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
