[Patches] [ python-Patches-671666 ] Make the default encoding provided on Windows

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Patches item #671666, was opened at 2003-01-21 17:36
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Open
Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: SUZUKI Hisao (suzuki_hisao)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Make the default encoding provided on Windows

Initial Comment:
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.  This patch ensures them usable in
a very efficient way by aliasing them to "mbcs" in
such a case.

Note that IDLE does not start up on Windows unless
the default encoding is provided.  The patch makes
IDLE operable all over the (Windows) world ;-).

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>Comment By: SUZUKI Hisao (suzuki_hisao)
Date: 2003-01-28 14:49

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I can reproduce the IDLE problem on my Windows
2000 in Japanese locale.  I hope you will confirm it
by asking your  friends in Japan or other countries.

I am afraid you missed the point.  The patch does NOT change
the default encoding of Python itself.
It is ASCII still.  It only makes the encoding of
locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]  be PROVIDED.

Please read that short patch. 


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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2003-01-22 07:04

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I'm rejecting this patch. The factory system default
encoding of Python is ASCII, on all platforms (atleast, it
should be this way; MacOS currently deviates).

I cannot reproduce the IDLE problem; IDLE starts without
that patch just fine.

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