Patch #671666: Alias ANSI code page to "mbcs".
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 0ab7a0f..d74609a 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -282,6 +282,22 @@
__builtin__.help = _Helper()
+# 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.
+# Make them usable by aliasing to "mbcs" in such a case.
+
+if sys.platform == 'win32':
+ import locale, codecs
+ enc = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+ if enc.startswith('cp'): # "cp***" ?
+ try:
+ codecs.lookup(enc)
+ except LookupError:
+ import encodings
+ encodings._cache[enc] = encodings._unknown
+ encodings.aliases.aliases[enc] = 'mbcs'
+
# Set the string encoding used by the Unicode implementation. The
# default is 'ascii', but if you're willing to experiment, you can
# change this.