[Python-Dev] Add a new "locale" codec?

[Victor Stinner]

2012/2/8 Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com>:
> Is the idea to have:
>
>  b"foo".decode("locale")
>
> be roughly equivalent to
>
>  encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
>  b"foo".decode(encoding)
>
> ?

Yes. Whereas:

b"foo".decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())

is equivalent to

encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(True)
b"foo".decode(encoding)

Victor