[Distutils] PEP 517 - specifying build system in pyproject.toml

[Thomas Kluyver]

On Tue, May 23, 2017, at 09:08 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> I strongly
> prefer using the locale encoding as the assumed encoding for the
> output stream rather than UTF-8.

I may have missed it, but has anyone proposed what it should do if it
wants to send characters which can't be encoded in the locale encoding?
Paths on Windows are handled natively as UTF-16, as I understand it, so
it's entirely possible for them to contain characters which can't be
represented in, say, CP1252.

Given this, and the workarounds Nick has pointed out are necessary for
systems where the locale thinks it's ASCII, I still think that
specifying "UTF-8" is a better option than trying to work with locale
encodings. We're building a new spec for new tools in 2017, let's not
prolong the pain of platform-dependent default encodings further.

Thomas