New submission from Geoffrey Bache <gjb1...@users.sourceforge.net>:
The locale module provides locale.getdefaultlocale and
locale.getpreferredencoding. The encodings returned by each are generally
subtly different ('ISO8859-1' vs 'ISO-8859-1'), but the difference between
these methods is not explained.
A comment by Martin von Löwis from 2003 in http://bugs.python.org/issue813449
indicates that "getdefaultlocale should not be used in new code", if this is
really the case then this should be in the docs.
Anyone reading the docs from the top will currently encounter getdefaultlocale
first and believe that this is the way to get the encoding.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 144677
nosy: docs@python, gjb1002
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Improve documentation of locale encoding functions
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4
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