[issue6135] subprocess seems to use local 8-bit encoding and gives no choice

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

About the topic:
> subprocess seems to use local 8-bit encoding and gives no choice
I don't understand that: by default, Python 2 and Python 3 use byte strings, so there is no encoding (nor error handler).

I don't see how you can get unicode from a process only using subprocess. But with Python 3, you can get unicode if you set universal_newlines option to True.

So for Python 2, it's a new feature (get unicode), and for Python 3, it's a new option to specify the encoding. The title should be changed to something like "subprocess: add an option to specify stdin, stdout and/or stderr encoding and errors" and the type should be changed to "feature request".

Or am I completly wrong?

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