[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

[Martin v. Loewis]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> - file I/O;
> 
> - OS filenames;
> 
> - implicit mixing of 8-bit and Unicode strings;
> 
> - invocation of unicode(s) or u.decode() without an encoding.

I would not suggest to support a default encoding for file
content. Instead, I think there should be a "terminal encoding", which
is only used for interaction with the user's terminal.

Regards,
Martin