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

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> 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).

That won't actually work. If you always use the C library's locale
setting, most scripts will run in the C locale, and fail to read text
files properly.

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title: locale.setlocale() doesn't change I/O codec, os.environ[] does -> locale.setlocale() doesn't change I/O codec,	os.environ

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