-- note to self: wait until 'cvs commit' has finished before
you edit the file.
diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 14d9b04..34be9ec 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
# encoding used by the default locale of this system. If the default
# encoding cannot be determined or is unknown, it defaults to 'ascii'.
-encoding = None # default
+encoding = "ascii" # default
if 0:
# Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
@@ -138,8 +138,7 @@
# Unicode to string conversion.
encoding = "undefined"
-if not encoding:
- encoding = "ascii"
+sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
#
# Run custom site specific code, if available.