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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 258a06f..75db433 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -706,15 +706,15 @@ Glossary locale encoding On Unix, it is the encoding of the LC_CTYPE locale. It can be set with - ``locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, new_locale)``. + :func:`locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, new_locale) <locale.setlocale>`. - On Windows, it is the ANSI code page (ex: ``cp1252``). + On Windows, it is the ANSI code page (ex: ``"cp1252"``). - ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` can be used to get the locale - encoding. + On Android and VxWorks, Python uses ``"utf-8"`` as the locale encoding. - Python uses the :term:`filesystem encoding and error handler` to convert - between Unicode filenames and bytes filenames. + ``locale.getencoding()`` can be used to get the locale encoding. + + See also the :term:`filesystem encoding and error handler`. list A built-in Python :term:`sequence`. Despite its name it is more akin |