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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 16 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 6b9377d..cf15d8f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -302,17 +302,19 @@ always available. file names, or ``None`` if the system default encoding is used. The result value depends on the operating system: - * On Windows 9x, the encoding is "mbcs". - - * On Mac OS X, the encoding is "utf-8". + * On Mac OS X, the encoding is ``'utf-8'``. * On Unix, the encoding is the user's preference according to the result of - nl_langinfo(CODESET), or :const:`None` if the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)`` failed. + nl_langinfo(CODESET), or ``None`` if the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)`` + failed. * On Windows NT+, file names are Unicode natively, so no conversion is - performed. :func:`getfilesystemencoding` still returns ``'mbcs'``, as this is - the encoding that applications should use when they explicitly want to convert - Unicode strings to byte strings that are equivalent when used as file names. + performed. :func:`getfilesystemencoding` still returns ``'mbcs'``, as + this is the encoding that applications should use when they explicitly + want to convert Unicode strings to byte strings that are equivalent when + used as file names. + + * On Windows 9x, the encoding is ``'mbcs'``. .. function:: getrefcount(object) |