François Pinard wrote:
> Am I looking in the wrong places, or else, should not the standard
> documentation more handily explain such things?
It should, but, alas, it doesn't. Contributions are welcome.
The algorithm to set sys.std{in,out}.encoding is in
sysmodule.c:_PySys_Init and pythonrun.c:Py_InitializeEx
and goes roughly as follows:
- On Windows, if isatty returns true, use GetConsoleCP and
GetConsoleOutputCP.
- On Unix, if isatty returns true, langinfo.h is present,
CODESET is defined, and nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns a
non-empty string, use that.
- otherwise, .encoding will not be set.
Regards,
Martin
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