On 2008-10-07 22:18, Fred Drake wrote:
On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
b) I would propose that the notion of a default encoding is entirely eliminated from Python, along with sys.(get|set)defaultencoding
+1
As already mentioned in my reply to Viktor: +1. It's not adjustable anymore, so we might as well get rid off the sys module APIs. The term "default encoding" itself still has some value in that it is associated with the C API char* encoding used for PyUnicode objects in Python 3.0. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 07 2008)
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