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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:12:44 -0400
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On 5/30/2011 6:15 PM, Irmen de Jong wrote:

>> Do you mean one of these os's, where Python (2) is not
>> working properly because the *defaultencoding* is set
>> to utf-8?

> Huh? On all of my machines, including windows and Ubuntu 11.04, sys.getdefaultencoding()
> returns 'ascii'.

For me, WINXP, 2.7
 >>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'

winxp, 3.2:
 >>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'utf-8'

Both are what one would want.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy