Status of internationalization

[JustFillBug]

On 2005-06-29, Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> wrote:
> lgettext() ist Python 2.4 only, here is something that should work
> with Python 2.2 and 2.3, too:
>
> # only one:
> import locale
> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> encoding = locale.getlocale()[1]
>

getpreferredencoding( [do_setlocale])

Return the encoding used for text data, according to user preferences.
User preferences are expressed differently on different systems, and
might not be available programmatically on some systems, so this
function only returns a guess.

New in version 2.3.