X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/a47418db8f3c7533cdac6841a7ce49ffd6641e41..ccea21ccf8a8c7f2012c890c9c1b916d0e725db2:/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py

diff --git a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
index bb3658d73c..bd9ecf759e 100644
--- a/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
+++ b/wxPython/src/_core_ex.py
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ 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()