[issue6501] Fatal LookupError: unknown encoding: cp0 on Windows embedded startup.

[Graham Dumpleton]

Graham Dumpleton <Graham.Dumpleton at gmail.com> added the comment:

The workaround of using:

#if defined(WIN32) && PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
        _wputenv(L"PYTHONIOENCODING=cp1252:backslashreplace");
#endif

        Py_Initialize();

gets around the crash on startup.

I haven't done sufficient testing to know if this may introduce any other 
problems given that one is overriding default I/O encoding for whole 
process.

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