X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/4293f8478760e6e89740bac9eeb426fd0b881896..0f00be4b33cdf013af6b64bfbd0e6841e7f0d574:/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py

diff --git a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
index 702e04f6ee..caaf2a8058 100644
--- a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
@@ -32,13 +32,25 @@ if RELEASE_VERSION != _core_.RELEASE_VERSION:
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# 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]
+import codecs
+try:
+    default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+    codecs.lookup(default)
+except (ValueError, LookupError):
+    default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()
 if default:
     wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding(default)
 del default
 del locale
+del codecs
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------