-import locale
-import codecs
-try:
- default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
- codecs.lookup(default)
-except (ValueError, LookupError):
- default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
+
+default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
+if default == 'ascii':
+ import locale
+ import codecs
+ try:
+ default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+ codecs.lookup(default)
+ except (ValueError, LookupError):
+ default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
+ del locale
+ del codecs