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+# pylint: disable=bad-option-value,unidiomatic-typecheck,undefined-variable,no-else-return
+import platform
+import os
+
+import locale
+
+########################################################################################################################
+# PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS
+
+
+def platform_is_windows():
+    return "windows" in platform.system().lower()
+
+
+PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS = platform_is_windows()
+
+########################################################################################################################
+# USE_SH_LIB
+# Determine whether to use the `sh` library
+# On windows we won't want to use the sh library since it's not supported - instead we'll use our own shell module.
+# However, we want to be able to overwrite this behavior for testing using the GITLINT_QA_USE_SH_LIB env var.
+
+
+def use_sh_library():
+    gitlint_use_sh_lib_env = os.environ.get("GITLINT_QA_USE_SH_LIB", None)
+    if gitlint_use_sh_lib_env:
+        return gitlint_use_sh_lib_env == "1"
+    return not PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS
+
+
+USE_SH_LIB = use_sh_library()
+
+########################################################################################################################
+# DEFAULT_ENCODING
+
+
+def getpreferredencoding():
+    """Modified version of local.getpreferredencoding() that takes into account LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG env vars
+    on windows and falls back to UTF-8."""
+    default_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() or "UTF-8"
+
+    # On Windows, we mimic git/linux by trying to read the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG env vars manually
+    # (on Linux/MacOS the `getpreferredencoding()` call will take care of this).
+    # We fallback to UTF-8
+    if PLATFORM_IS_WINDOWS:
+        default_encoding = "UTF-8"
+        for env_var in ["LC_ALL", "LC_CTYPE", "LANG"]:
+            encoding = os.environ.get(env_var, False)
+            if encoding:
+                # Support dotted (C.UTF-8) and non-dotted (C or UTF-8) charsets:
+                # If encoding contains a dot: split and use second part, otherwise use everything
+                dot_index = encoding.find(".")
+                if dot_index != -1:
+                    default_encoding = encoding[dot_index + 1 :]
+                else:
+                    default_encoding = encoding
+                break
+
+    return default_encoding
+
+
+DEFAULT_ENCODING = getpreferredencoding()