[issue8047] Serialiser in ElementTree returns unicode strings in Py3k

[Fredrik Lundh]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at effbot.org> added the comment:

Oops :)  Yeah, that was pretty lousy way to show what encoding I was using for that test:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
'cp1252'
>>>

(Somewhat related, it would be nice if Python actually normalized defaultencoding/preferredencoding to some canonical name for the codec in use, i.e. preferred MIME name or at least IANA; we had a rather nice little bug recently that wouldn't have happened if that had been the case...)

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