+def preferredencoding():
+ """Get preferred encoding.
+
+ Returns the best encoding scheme for the system, based on
+ locale.getpreferredencoding() and some further tweaks.
+ """
+ def yield_preferredencoding():
+ try:
+ pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+ u'TEST'.encode(pref)
+ except:
+ pref = 'UTF-8'
+ while True:
+ yield pref
+ return yield_preferredencoding().next()
+