Hi,

In message "Re: Embedding 1.9"
    on Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:22:01 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave / pragprog.com> writes:

|In 1.9, do we also now need to call set_locale()?

Do you mean setlocale()?  It's optional.  If you call it,
Encoding.default_external will be set according to your locale,
otherwise it will be ASCII-8BIT.

							matz.