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authorInada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>2022-04-22 01:39:24 (GMT)
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gh-91156: Use `locale.getencoding()` instead of getpreferredencoding (GH-91732)
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
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@@ -105,15 +105,15 @@ of the UTF-8 encoding:
* Use UTF-8 as the :term:`filesystem encoding <filesystem encoding and error
handler>`.
-* :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding()` returns ``'UTF-8'``.
-* :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding()` returns ``'UTF-8'`` (the *do_setlocale*
+* :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding()` returns ``'utf-8'``.
+* :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding()` returns ``'utf-8'`` (the *do_setlocale*
argument has no effect).
* :data:`sys.stdin`, :data:`sys.stdout`, and :data:`sys.stderr` all use
UTF-8 as their text encoding, with the ``surrogateescape``
:ref:`error handler <error-handlers>` being enabled for :data:`sys.stdin`
and :data:`sys.stdout` (:data:`sys.stderr` continues to use
``backslashreplace`` as it does in the default locale-aware mode)
-* On Unix, :func:`os.device_encoding` returns ``'UTF-8'`` rather than the
+* On Unix, :func:`os.device_encoding` returns ``'utf-8'`` rather than the
device encoding.
Note that the standard stream settings in UTF-8 mode can be overridden by