[I18n-sig] Pre-PEP: Proposed Python Character Model

[Martin v. Loewis]

> In my opinion there should be *no* encoding default. New code should
> always specify an encoding. Old code should continue to work the same.

However, matter-of-factually, you propose that ISO-8859-1 is the
default encoding, as this is the encoding that is used when converting
character strings to char* in the C API. I'd certainly call it a
default.

Regards,
Martin