Stephan R.A. Deibel <sdei...@wingware.com> added the comment: It appears to be specific to 2.x and does not occur under Python 3.0:
Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Jan 15 2009, 09:27:16) [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'utf-8' Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 11 2008, 11:59:39) [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>import sys >>> sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'UTF-8' Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Mar 16 2009, 09:34:35) [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.getfilesystemencoding() 'UTF-8' (This is on a Ubuntu system where LANG=en_US.UTF-8 is the default) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1608805> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com