From 231dc0a3570f74f63b538544bdc805b71f5f6af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:10:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add the BE_ENCODING environmental variable to override the
 default encoding.

---
 libbe/util/encoding.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libbe/util/encoding.py b/libbe/util/encoding.py
index 3fde8cb..77d62fc 100644
--- a/libbe/util/encoding.py
+++ b/libbe/util/encoding.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Support input/output/filesystem encodings (e.g. UTF-8).
 
 import codecs
 import locale
+import os
 import sys
 import types
 
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@ if libbe.TESTING == True:
     import doctest
 
 
-ENCODING = None # override get_encoding() output by setting this
+ENCODING = os.environ.get('BE_ENCODING', None)
+"override get_encoding() output"
 
 def get_encoding():
     """
-- 
2.26.2