X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/669e06d77ebb561f43a745a4b2b72e22ac19381d..c27bcbd5a7cec9f03b15c69824da99c5bb75924a:/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py

diff --git a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
index 656a54a991..caaf2a8058 100644
--- a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
@@ -40,11 +40,17 @@ if RELEASE_VERSION != _core_.RELEASE_VERSION:
 # 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
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------