[issue11022] locale.setlocale() doesn't change I/O codec, os.environ[] does

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at 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).

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components: +IO
nosy: +loewis, pitrou
versions: +Python 3.2

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