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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-08-18 21:23:25 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2010-08-18 21:23:25 (GMT)
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Issue #8622: Add PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable to override the
filesystem encoding. initfsencoding() displays also a better error message if get_codeset() failed.
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@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added:
* Stub
+
+Unicode
+=======
+
+The filesystem encoding can be specified by setting the
+:envvar:`PYTHONFSENCODING` environment variable before running the intepreter.
+The value should be a string in the form ``<encoding>``, e.g. ``utf-8``.
+
+
IDLE
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