Hi, Pablo. I just submitted the PEP 686 to the SC. https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/118 In this PEP, I am proposing: a. Small improvement for UTF-8 mode in Python 3.11 b. Make UTF-8 mode default in Python 3.13. (a) is an important change for (b) so I included it in the PEP. More precisely, (a) contains two changes: * Making `open(path, encoding="locale")` use locale encoding in UTF-8 mode (Python 3.10 used UTF-8) * Add `locale.getencoding()` that is same to `locale.getpreferredencoding(False)` but returns locale encoding even in UTF-8 mode. These changes are important for (b). But they are not a big change needing PEP. What should I do? * Do not merge anything until PEP accepted. * Merge (a) without waiting PEP accepted. * Merge (a) and remove it from the PEP. FWI, I and Victor are implementing `locale.getencoding()` for now. https://bugs.python.org/issue47000 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/32068 Regards, -- Inada Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>