[Python-Dev] PEP 263 - default encoding

[Guido van Rossum]

> mal wrote:
> 
> > My conclusion to all this is to withdraw the default encoding
> > idea and replace it with the fixed ASCII default. This default
> > won't be changeable by other means that adding an explicit
> > header to the source file.

+1.

This was my original stance. :-)

> +1
> 
> (as long as the plan is to change ASCII to UTF-8 in some
> yet unspecified future version)

+1

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