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get_system_encoding

The encoding for the character type functions. Fallback to 'ascii' if the #encoding is unsupported by Python or could not be determined. See tickets #10335 and #5846.

def get_system_encoding() - > string

The encoding for the character type functions. Fallback to 'ascii' if the encoding is unsupported by Python or could not be determined. See tickets #10335 and #5846.

Returns

TypeDescription
stringThe system's preferred character encoding name, or 'ascii' as a safe fallback if the detected encoding is invalid or unavailable.