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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/site.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py index 0ab7a0f..d74609a 100644 --- a/Lib/site.py +++ b/Lib/site.py @@ -282,6 +282,22 @@ class _Helper: __builtin__.help = _Helper() +# On Windows, some default encodings are not provided +# by Python (e.g. "cp932" in Japanese locale), while they +# are always available as "mbcs" in each locale. +# Make them usable by aliasing to "mbcs" in such a case. + +if sys.platform == 'win32': + import locale, codecs + enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] + if enc.startswith('cp'): # "cp***" ? + try: + codecs.lookup(enc) + except LookupError: + import encodings + encodings._cache[enc] = encodings._unknown + encodings.aliases.aliases[enc] = 'mbcs' + # Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation. The # default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can # change this. |