# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1481840800 -3600
# Node ID 839fad2aab0a0de8935cda2cb85914a4f0bd7092
# Parent  4ef5d5e656c050d269771a1ebb876f8a921bc04f
Added a localised stdin stream employing the preferred encoding from the locale.

diff -r 4ef5d5e656c0 -r 839fad2aab0a lib/posix/io.py
--- a/lib/posix/io.py	Thu Dec 15 23:25:48 2016 +0100
+++ b/lib/posix/io.py	Thu Dec 15 23:26:40 2016 +0100
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 from __builtins__.file import filestream
 from __builtins__.types import check_int, check_string
+
 from native import (
     close as _close,
     fdopen as _fdopen,
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@
     write as _write
     )
 
+import locale
+
 # Abstractions for system-level files and streams.
 
 class sysfile:
@@ -78,6 +81,13 @@
 stdout = sysstream(1, "w")
 stderr = sysstream(2, "w")
 
+# Localised streams.
+# Perform locale initialisation explicitly to ensure that the locale module
+# and various function defaults have been initialised.
+
+locale.initlocale()
+lstdin = sysstream(0, "r", locale.getpreferredencoding())
+
 # Input/output functions.
 
 def close(fd):
diff -r 4ef5d5e656c0 -r 839fad2aab0a lib/sys.py
--- a/lib/sys.py	Thu Dec 15 23:25:48 2016 +0100
+++ b/lib/sys.py	Thu Dec 15 23:26:40 2016 +0100
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 """
 
 from __builtins__.int import maxint, minint
-from posix.io import stdin, stdout, stderr
+from posix.io import lstdin, stdin, stdout, stderr
+
 from native import (
     exit as _exit,
     get_argv as _get_argv,