Thank you, Council members and all members joined in the long discussion.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 8:29 AM Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Once the whole stdlib and most of top PyPI projects will be fixed to >> no longer emit EncodingWarning, I will become safer to opt-in for >> UTF-8 by default by enabling the Python UTF-8 Mode! >> https://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#python-utf-8-mode >> >> One day, we will silently switch Python to UTF-8 by default, and >> nobody will notice! ;-) > > > In particular it's important that nobody living in Japan or China should > notice. This is also still the biggest challenge. :-( > Java has a very similar problem and proposal. See JEP 400 (*) that was updated recently. If JEP 400 is accepted, users can use `-Dfile.encoding=COMPAT` for legacy behavior. If UTF-8 mode is enabled by default, users can use `PYTHONUTF8=0` or `-Xutf8=0` for legacy behavior. (*) https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/400 Anyway, PEP 597 adds `encoding="locale"` option. Let's implement it in Python 3.10 and wait 4 years. Many libraries will use only UTF-8, or can drop Python 3.9 support and use `encoding="locale"` where locale encoding is needed. Regards, -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EMYJ6KVCRNM3ZGPY6BWBVXHYBXIDPNU7/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/