[Python-3000] PEP: Python3 and UnicodeDecodeError

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> sys.setdefaultencoding() should probably be dropped altogether from
>> Python3.
> 
> Isn't that method still there to allow other implementations to be more
> permissive about allowing the default encoding to be changed?

That never was my understanding - although it's an interesting thought.

Is that opportunity actually used? I.e. is there a Python implementation
that does work correctly in the presence of setdefaultencoding? I find
that hard to believe.

Regards,
Martin