version bump

Author: willmcgugan

CHANGES.txt

@@ -101,6 +101,6 @@
 0.5.3:
 
     * Implemented scandir in listdir if available
-
+    * Fix for issue where local.getpreferredencoding returns empty string
 
 

fs/__init__.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.5.3a0"
+__version__ = "0.5.4a1"
 __author__ = "Will McGugan (will@willmcgugan.com)"
 
 #  provide these by default so people can use 'fs.path.basename' etc.

fs/iotools.py

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ def make_stream(name,
 
     if not binary:
         io_object = io.TextIOWrapper(io_object,
-                                     encoding=encoding,
+                                     encoding=encoding or 'utf-8',
                                      errors=errors,
                                      newline=newline,
                                      line_buffering=line_buffering,)
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ def make_stream(name,
 
 def decode_binary(data, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None):
     """Decode bytes as though read from a text file"""
-    return io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO(data), encoding=encoding, errors=errors, newline=newline).read()
+    return io.TextIOWrapper(io.BytesIO(data), encoding=encoding or 'utf-8', errors=errors, newline=newline).read()
 
 
 def make_bytes_io(data, encoding=None, errors=None):

setup.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import sys
 PY3 = sys.version_info >= (3,)
 
-VERSION = "0.5.3a0"
+VERSION = "0.5.4a1"
 
 COMMANDS = ['fscat',
             'fsinfo',