Message 276693 - Python tracker

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Working with Docker I often end up with an environment where the locale isn't correctly set. In these cases it would be great if sys.getfilesystemencoding() could default to 'utf-8' instead of 'ascii', as it's the encoding of the future and ascii is a subset of it anyway.

Related: http://bugs.python.org/issue19846