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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 09:09:43 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pydoc3.5 borks on my Mac
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On 01Feb2015 14:17, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
>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.

The latter lacks a dash. See if it's that.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

A feature is a bug with seniority.