Comment 9 for bug 1058038

AFAICT the default fsencoding is read only at python startup and can not be changed later. The dbus activation does run the aptd without a env (well, just a minimal one).

<cjwatson> Or else there needs to be a way to break the caching when we change Python's locale at run-time
<cjwatson> That might be a good idea anyway
<mvo> cjwatson: yeah, that would be the cleanest I think, ensuring this is reset on setlocale()
<pitti> yeah, a locale.setlocale() call ought to change the fs encoding, toovalid env

Allowing to change the encoding later is probably the best option.