Function getpreferredencoding

Lib/locale.py:639–648

Return the charset that the user is likely using.

(do_setlocale=True)

    CODESET
except NameError:
    def getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=True):
        """Return the charset that the user is likely using."""
        if sys.flags.warn_default_encoding:
            import warnings
            warnings.warn(
                "UTF-8 Mode affects locale.getpreferredencoding(). Consider locale.getencoding() instead.",
                EncodingWarning, 2)
        if sys.flags.utf8_mode:
            return 'utf-8'
        return getencoding()
else:
    # On Unix, if CODESET is available, use that.
    def getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=True):