On 6/5/06, Neil Schemenauer  wrote:
> Akihiro KAYAMA  wrote:
> > FYI: On UNIX, the environment variables LANG/LC_CTYPE/LC_ALL also
> > affect Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding. (I didn't know Python had such
> > mechanism. Why they don't affect setdefaultencoding?)
>
> defaultencoding should always be 'ascii'.

Why does it exist then?

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Mike Orr