[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1 (io-in-c)

[Paul Moore]

2009/1/28 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>> Hmm, I just checked and on Windows, it
>> appears that sys.getdefaultencoding() is UTF-8. That seems odd - I
>> would have thought the majority of Windows systems were NOT set to use
>> UTF-8 by default...
>
> In Python 3, sys.getdefaultencoding() is "utf-8" on all platforms, just
> as it was "ascii" in 2.x, on all platforms. The default encoding isn't
> used for I/O; check f.encoding to find out what encoding is used to
> read the file you are reading.

Thanks for the explanation. It might be clearer to document this a
little more explicitly in the docs for open() (on the basis that
people using open() are the most likely to be naive about encodings).
I'll see if I can come up with an appropriate doc patch.

Paul.