Fix bug #132 by assuming ascii when getpreferredencoding() returns an empty string. This is better than breaking always.

ikanobori · ikanobori · commit df61f312d356 · 2012-03-16T16:01:01.000Z
diff --git a/bpython/repl.py b/bpython/repl.py
@@ -401,7 +401,8 @@ def __init__(self, interp, config):
 
         pythonhist = os.path.expanduser(self.config.hist_file)
         if os.path.exists(pythonhist):
-            self.rl_history.load(pythonhist, getpreferredencoding())
+            self.rl_history.load(pythonhist,
+                    getpreferredencoding() or "ascii")
 
     def startup(self):
         """
