[Python-3000] PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-22 19:55, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is this thread reaching a conclusion yet? I am hoping I can soon
> accept some variant of the following:
> 
> 1. repr() returns a Unicode string containing only printable Unicode
> characters, using \x\u\U escapes for characters that are not
> considered printable according to some version of the Unicode standard
> augmented with some Python practicality, but unaffected by platform or
> locale. This can be implemented efficiently, without having to load
> the whole Unicode database, at least for strings containing only a
> large subset of the Unicode character set (e.g. all of UCS2, and
> possibly whole ranges of UCS4).
> 
> 2. If you don't want any non-ASCII printed to a file, set the file's
> encoding to ASCII and the error handler to backslashescape.

Sounds like a good compromise.

Just please don't set the error handler of sys.stdout to anything but
"strict" per default.

> But as I haven't followed the thread I may be way off.
> 
> Is Martin's proposal to allow forcing the default stdin/stdout/stderr
> encodings through environment variables related? (It should allow for
> setting the error handler too.)

It's not related, but would be very helpful on its own, esp. for
the stdin part in 3.x.

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