[New-bugs-announce] [issue19846] print() and write() are relying on sys.getfilesystemencoding() instead of sys.getdefaultencoding()

[Sworddragon]

New submission from Sworddragon:

It seems that print() and write() (and maybe other of such I/O functions) are relying on sys.getfilesystemencoding(). But these functions are not operating with filenames but with their content. In the attachments is an example script which demonstrates this problem. Here is what I get:

sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8
sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ python3 test.py
sys.getdefaultencoding(): utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding(): utf-8
ä
sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ LANG=C
sworddragon at ubuntu:~/tmp$ python3 test.py
sys.getdefaultencoding(): utf-8
sys.getfilesystemencoding(): ascii
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 4, in <module>
    print('\xe4')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe4' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

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components: IO
files: test.py
messages: 204849
nosy: Sworddragon
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: print() and write() are relying on sys.getfilesystemencoding() instead of sys.getdefaultencoding()
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32914/test.py

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