>>>unicode(' ', sys.getfilesystemencoding())
u'\u4e2d\u56fd'
>>>unicode(' ')

wrote:
> The follow statement comes from the Python 2.5 documentation
> --------------
> encode( [encoding[,errors]])

> Return an encoded version of the string. Default encoding is the
> current default string encoding. errors may be given to set a
> different error handling scheme.
> ---------------
> what's the "Default encoding" mean ? Does it equal to the
> sys.getfilesystemencoding()?
> If yes, but :

>>>>unicode(' ', sys.getfilesystemencoding())
> u'\u4e2d\u56fd'
>>>>unicode(' ')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd6 in position
> 0: ordinal not in range(128)

> It seems the "Default encoding" is not equal to the
> sys.getfilesystemencoding(). And then,  what is it ?