Message 205465 - Python tracker

Message205465

Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	deleted250130, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2013-12-07.16:10:51
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Message-id	<1386432651.58.0.606199015507.issue19846@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Antoine's suggestion of being a little more aggressive in choosing utf-8 over ascii as the OS API encoding sounds reasonable to me. I think we're getting to a point where a system claiming ASCII as the encoding to use is almost certainly a misconfiguration rather than a desired setting. If someone really means ASCII, they can force it for at least the std streams with PYTHONIOENCODING.

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Antoine's suggestion of being a little more aggressive in choosing utf-8 over ascii as the OS API encoding sounds reasonable to me.

I think we're getting to a point where a system claiming ASCII as the encoding to use is almost certainly a misconfiguration rather than a desired setting. If someone *really* means ASCII, they can force it for at least the std streams with PYTHONIOENCODING.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-12-07 16:10:51	ncoghlan	set	recipients: + ncoghlan, terry.reedy, pitrou, vstinner, r.david.murray, deleted250130
2013-12-07 16:10:51	ncoghlan	set	messageid: <1386432651.58.0.606199015507.issue19846@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2013-12-07 16:10:51	ncoghlan	link	issue19846 messages
2013-12-07 16:10:51	ncoghlan	create