From efd7b001d62f81d7e4d9d11960948f21b49e7ac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:50:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] -- note to self: wait until 'cvs commit' has finished before 
   you edit the file.

---
 Lib/site.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 14d9b04cc77..34be9ec6a7c 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ del exit
 # encoding used by the default locale of this system. If the default
 # encoding cannot be determined or is unknown, it defaults to 'ascii'.
 
-encoding = None # default
+encoding = "ascii" # default
 
 if 0:
     # Enable to support locale aware default string encodings.
@@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ if 0:
     # Unicode to string conversion.
     encoding = "undefined"
 
-if not encoding:
-    encoding = "ascii"
+sys.setdefaultencoding(encoding)
 
 #
 # Run custom site specific code, if available.