getdefaultencoding - how to change this?

[Robert Kern]

On 1/20/11 9:47 AM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:

> I'm glad that worked for you. Alternatively, it seems like you can set the default encoding in site.py which sounds easier than recompiling Python.

Never do that. It breaks dicts and makes your code non-portable.

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Robert Kern

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