Congratulation INADA-san! I'm impressed by your tenacity :-)
+1. Great work!
Last months, I followed your different propositions on
discuss.python.org to use UTF-8 by default in Python. It's good to see
the first non-controversial part being accepted! I hope that this PEP
will help to move towards a world where we don't guess encodings
anymore, but make them very explicit!
Actually, the "north star" here is a world where nobody has to think about encodings any more. That, and world peace.
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. :-(