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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 14:17:46 -0600
Subject: Re: pydoc3.5 borks on my Mac
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
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On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 python3 -c 'import locale; print(locale.getpreferredencoding(False))'

Aha!

hgpython% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 python3.5 -c 'import locale;
print(locale.getpreferredencoding(False))'
UTF-8
hgpython% LANG=en_US.utf8 python3.5 -c 'import locale;
print(locale.getpreferredencoding(False))'
US-ASCII

Thank you. I always thought these Unicode encodings were supposed to
be case-insensitive.

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