What encoding is used when initializing sys.argv?

[Tim Roberts]

Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thunder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Petr Prikryl:
>
>> ... I have discovered that
>> I do not understand what encoding should be used
>> to convert the sys.argv into unicode.
>
>    Martin mentioned CP_ACP. In Python on Windows, this can be accessed 
>as the "mbcs" codec.
>
>import sys
>print repr(sys.argv[1])
>print repr(unicode(sys.argv[1], "mbcs"))
>
>C:\bin>python glurp.py abcß•
>'abc\xdf\x95'
>u'abc\xdf\u2022'

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