Changing the “locale preferred encoding” in Python 3 in Windows

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As of python3.5.1 this hack looks like this:

import _locale
_locale._getdefaultlocale = (lambda *args: ['en_US', 'utf8'])

All files opened thereafter will assume the default encoding to be utf8.

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