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

[Guido van Rossum]

Congrats Victor! Thanks mr. Inada for reviewing this PEP (and 538). Thanks
everyone else who participated in the lively discussion!

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:00 PM, INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Could you explain why not? utf-8 seems like the common thread for using
> > surrogateescape so I'm not sure what would make en_US.UTF-8 different
> than
> > C.UTF-8.
> >
>
> Because there are many lang_COUNTRY.UTF-8 locales:
> ja_JP.UTF-8, zh_TW.UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8, etc...
>
> If only en_US.UTF-8 should use surrogateescape, it may make confusing
> situation
> like: "This script works in English Linux desktop, but doesn't work in
> Japanese Linux
> desktop!"
>
> I accepted PEP 540.  So even if failed to coerce locale, it is better
> than Python 3.6.
>
> Regards,
>
> INADA Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>
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