Re: [Python-Dev] open(): set the default encoding to 'utf-8' in Python 3.3?

Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:

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Making such default encodings depend on the locale has already failed to work when we first introduced a default encoding in Py2, so I don't understand why we are repeating the same mistake again in Py3 (only in a different area).

I do not remember any proposed change during the Py3 design discussions.

I certainly proposed it, more than once. Bill