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-rw-r--r--django/utils/encoding.py4
-rw-r--r--tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/django/utils/encoding.py b/django/utils/encoding.py
index 89eac79dd4..360eb91ed5 100644
--- a/django/utils/encoding.py
+++ b/django/utils/encoding.py
@@ -249,12 +249,12 @@ def filepath_to_uri(path):
def get_system_encoding():
"""
- The encoding of the default system locale. Fallback to 'ascii' if the
+ 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.
"""
try:
- encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] or "ascii"
+ encoding = locale.getlocale()[1] or "ascii"
codecs.lookup(encoding)
except Exception:
encoding = "ascii"
diff --git a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
index 8dddd4e250..6dea260b84 100644
--- a/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
+++ b/tests/utils_tests/test_encoding.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class TestEncodingUtils(SimpleTestCase):
self.assertEqual(smart_str("foo"), "foo")
def test_get_default_encoding(self):
- with mock.patch("locale.getdefaultlocale", side_effect=Exception):
+ with mock.patch("locale.getlocale", side_effect=Exception):
self.assertEqual(get_system_encoding(), "ascii")
def test_repercent_broken_unicode_recursion_error(self):