[Python-Dev] PEP 263 - default encoding

[Guido van Rossum]

> 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.

> If anyone has objections, please speak up. 
> 
> Note that I don't want to head on into the UTF-8 discussion 
> that has been going on. People who want the UTF-8 source code
> encoding must use the UTF-8 coding header (and/or the BOM mark).

+1

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)