getdefaultencoding - how to change this?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Robert Kern wrote:

> 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.

I've never been tempted for the very non-portability reason you cite. I didn't know that it would break dicts, though. Thanks for the education.

bye
Philip