From c06689daff7c7fc0ba5abc7ce9ed7041ad095956 2011-09-17 10:28:29
From: Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-09-17 10:28:29
Subject: [PATCH] Try locale encoding if stdin encoding is ascii.

Starting the Qt console on Python 3, the kernel's stdin ends up with a .encoding of 'ascii' (whereas on Python 2 it is None). Since most platforms can handle a superset of ASCII, we may as well try locale.getpreferredencoding() in this case.

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diff --git a/IPython/utils/text.py b/IPython/utils/text.py
index 9643900..cb40f41 100644
--- a/IPython/utils/text.py
+++ b/IPython/utils/text.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def getdefaultencoding():
     and usually ASCII.
     """
     enc = sys.stdin.encoding
-    if not enc:
+    if not enc or enc=='ascii':
         try:
             # There are reports of getpreferredencoding raising errors
             # in some cases, which may well be fixed, but let's be conservative here.