Feature request: Respect terminal encoding

[Ccaracalla]

-------------- patch ------------------

--- bin/list_members 2005-04-14 17:47:41.000000000 +0200
+++ bin/list_members.edgar 2005-10-12
15:57:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@
 from email.Utils import formataddr

 PROGRAM = sys.argv[0]
-ENC = sys.getdefaultencoding()
+import locale
+language, ENC = locale.getdefaultlocale()
 COMMASPACE = ', '

 try:

------------ patch end ----------------

Justification:

.) I know many administrators who set their server's
system locale to POSIX or C but later only access those
machines from their workstations which have their
locale set to Unicode.
.) Assuming system locale == current terminal locale is
evil.

Ok, I'm sure you guys had your reasons not to do it the
way of the above patch. Never the less it would be cool
to have some finer grained control over what you get.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1324907&group_id=103&atid=100103]