From c9c1c097f201f2ab2962ac450938c430b3d3dd2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vachaspati <vachasp2@taubh1.campuscluster.illinois.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 06:03:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug where encoding for default locale is None.

---
 dendropy/utility/textprocessing.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/dendropy/utility/textprocessing.py
+++ b/dendropy/utility/textprocessing.py
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ ENCODING = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
 if ENCODING == None:
     ENCODING = 'UTF-8'
 
+if ENCODING == None:
+    ENCODING = 'UTF-8'
+
 def bytes_to_text(s):
     """
     Converts a byte string (as read from, e.g., standard input)
