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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-08-19 11:36:43 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-08-19 11:36:43 (GMT)
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@@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ These environment variables influence Python's behavior.
If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used
for the filesystem encoding (see :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding`).
+ This variable is not available (ignored) on Windows and Mac OS X: the
+ filesystem encoding is pinned to ``'mbcs'`` on Windows and ``'utf-8'`` on
+ Mac OS X.
+
.. versionadded:: 3.2