On 6/28/2011 10:06 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:43:05 +0200 Victor Stinner<victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> wrote:
- ISO-8859-1 os some FreeBSD systems - ANSI code page on Windows, e.g. cp1252 (close to ISO-8859-1) in Western Europe, cp952 in Japan, ... - ASCII if the locale is manually set to an empty string or to "C", or if the environment is empty, or by default on some systems - something different depending on the system and user configuration...
Why would utf-8 be the right thing in these cases?
Because utf-8 is the only way to write out any Python 3 text. By default, writing and reading an str object should work on all Python installations. And because other apps are (increasingly) using it for exactly the same reason. -- Terry Jan Reedy