[Python-Dev] Python3 "complexity"

[Serhiy Storchaka]

10.01.14 18:27, Baptiste Carvello написав(ла):
> would it make sense to be more general, and allow a "lenient mode",
> where all files implicitly opened with the default encoding would also
> use the surrogateescape error handler ?

The surrogateescape error handler is compatible only with 
ASCII-compatible encodings (i.e. no ShiftJIS, no UTF-16). It can't be 
used by default. But you can set PYTHONIOENCODING=:surrogateescape and 
got you default locale encoding with surrogateescape.