# HG changeset patch
# User Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
# Date 1481999125 -19800
# Node ID ce36fa9b140cff93e071035e3e9d4aaf39e6f7b0
# Parent  d7875bfbfccbf4ec2a4a9866159929f788a805b4
py3: make sure encoding.encoding is a bytes variable

encoding.encoding returns unicodes when locale.getpreferredencoding() is used
to get the preferred encoding. This patch fixes that.

diff -r d7875bfbfccb -r ce36fa9b140c mercurial/encoding.py
--- a/mercurial/encoding.py	Mon Dec 19 22:15:00 2016 +0000
+++ b/mercurial/encoding.py	Sat Dec 17 23:55:25 2016 +0530
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 try:
     encoding = environ.get("HGENCODING")
     if not encoding:
-        encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or 'ascii'
+        encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding().encode('ascii') or 'ascii'
         encoding = _encodingfixers.get(encoding, lambda: encoding)()
 except locale.Error:
     encoding = 'ascii'