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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-07-04 11:48:30 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>2011-07-04 11:48:30 (GMT)
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Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page on
Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available) instead of using UTF-8.
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
+ on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
+ we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
+ instead of using UTF-8.
+
- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
generator.