X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/a3c9f0642c4d89beb92720056f8c20bdacde979d..ef826e249610b0930a11039e30f15bad70c4d7f4:/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py

diff --git a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
index 004dc12019..f19ca7ecd7 100644
--- a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
@@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ if RELEASE_VERSION != _core_.RELEASE_VERSION:
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+# 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
+try:
+    default = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+except ValueError:
+    default = "iso8859-1"
+if default:
+    wx.SetDefaultPyEncoding(default)
+del default
+del locale
+
+#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 class PyDeadObjectError(AttributeError):
     pass