[Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 08:34:52 CET 2012 

Is the idea to have:

  b"foo".decode("locale")

be roughly equivalent to

  encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
  b"foo".decode(encoding)

?

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