gives you something "safe" and you can advise the
user to set the locale.
> On my system I have added LANG to .profile.
That's certainly the right thing to do.
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ou shouldn't look directly at these variables (LANG and LC_*) but
rather use the functions from the locale module, e.g.:
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') # use the current locale settings
encoding = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET)
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of many base system programs.
HTH
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