[patch] small user_encoding fix

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:27:11AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:06 +0100, Marien Zwart wrote:
> > 
> > -user_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or 'ascii'
> > +try:
> > +    user_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or 'ascii'
> > +except locale.Error:
> > +    user_encoding = 'ascii'
> >  del locale 
> 
> Its not -quite- trivial... 
> 
> So to test this I would do the following: 
>  * make the code in question a function to allow it to be invoked at
> other times than the system startup:

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What needs to be done to finish this? With my upgrade to dapper breaking
my locales, this now always happens to me unless I force to C.

Wouter van Heyst