X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/5917d04127f414f0c2cd400581cb1c47395a3479..5ec5b47f47d626c417486e2ce2d167e44b3b66b6:/wxPython/src/msw/_core.py

diff --git a/wxPython/src/msw/_core.py b/wxPython/src/msw/_core.py
index e5794e1ae4..f9cf4a8438 100644
--- a/wxPython/src/msw/_core.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/msw/_core.py
@@ -13713,7 +13713,10 @@ if default == 'ascii':
     import locale
     import codecs
     try:
-        default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+        if hasattr(locale, 'getpreferredencoding'):
+            default = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+        else:
+            default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
         codecs.lookup(default)
     except (ValueError, LookupError, TypeError):
         default = _sys.getdefaultencoding()