Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: locale.getpreferredencoding() should certainly not crash but the question remains of what should be the outcome. I can see several possibilities: (1) return the empty string (2) return None (3) return "ascii" (!!) (4) raise an exception (which one?)
(2) sounds the most logical to me, there is no preferred encoding in the environment so we just return None to indicate that the application has to choose its own default. ---------- nosy: +pitrou priority: -> critical _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3362> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
