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-rw-r--r--Objects/unicodeobject.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index fa7c5ea2..c7f9803 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -4710,7 +4710,7 @@ void _PyUnicode_Init()
/* Init the implementation */
unicode_empty = _PyUnicode_New(0);
- strcpy(unicode_default_encoding, "utf-8");
+ strcpy(unicode_default_encoding, "ascii");
}
/* Finalize the Unicode implementation */