Message 217387 - Python tracker
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Yeah. My proposal had more to do with the fact that we should some day > switch to utf-8 by default on all POSIX systems, regardless of what the > system advertises as "best encoding". Yeah, that seems like a plausible future to me as well, and knowing it's a step along that path actually gives me more motivation to get back to working on the startup issues :)