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I see. For that, you should not use getdefaultlocale. The
reason is that getdefaultlocale cannot possibly determine
the locale's encoding correctly. Instead, you should use
locale.nl_langinfo where available (invoking setlocale
beforehand).
The fix you are reporting as 'easy' is a hack rather than a
solution: there is no guarantee whatsoever that the encoding
in a @euro locale will be Latin-9; it could just as well be,
say, UTF-8. Likewise, there might be other locales with
implied encodings.