[Python-Dev] PEP 540: Add a new UTF-8 mode (v3)

[Ethan Furman]

There were some concerns about open() earlier:

On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 at 06:10 INADA Naoki wrote:
 > I think PEP 538 and PEP 540 should behave almost identical except
 > changing locale or not.  So I need very strong reason if PEP 540
 > changes default error handler of open().

Brett replied:
 > I don't have enough locale experience to weigh in as an expert,
 > but I already was leaning towards INADA-san's logic of not wanting
 > to change open() and this makes me really not want to change it.

On 12/08/2017 07:22 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> """
> Effects of the UTF-8 Mode:
[...]
> Side effects:
>
> * ``open()`` uses the UTF-8 encoding by default.

For those of us trying to follow along, is this change to open() one that Inada-san was worried about?  Has something 
else changed?

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~Ethan~