[Python-Dev] Support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings

[Glenn Linderman]

On 11/14/2015 5:37 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
>> Notepad defaults to ANSI encoding, as I think it always has.  UTF-8 is an
>> option, and it does seem to try to notice the original encoding of the file,
>> when editing old files, but when creating a new one.... ANSI.
> Thanks. Is "ANSI" always an eight-bit ASCII-compatible encoding?

I wouldn't trust an answer to this question that didn't come from 
someone that used Windows with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, as their 
default language for the install. So I don't have a trustworthy answer 
to give.
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