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-# Set the default string conversion encoding from the locale
+# Set the default string<-->unicode conversion encoding from the
+# locale. This encoding is used when string or unicode objects need
+# to be converted in order to pass them to wxWidgets. Please be aware
+# that the default encoding within the same locale may be slightly
+# different on different platforms. For example, please see
+# http://www.alanwood.net/demos/charsetdiffs.html for differences
+# between the common latin/roman encodings.
import locale
default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
if default: