[Python-Dev] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale

[Nick Coghlan]

On 9 March 2017 at 07:58, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 5 March 2017 at 17:50, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Late last year I started working on a change to the CPython CLI (*not*
>>> the shared library) to get it to coerce the legacy C locale to something
>>> based on UTF-8 when a suitable locale is available.
>>>
>>> After a couple of rounds of iteration on linux-sig and python-ideas, I'm
>>> now bringing it to python-dev as a concrete proposal for Python 3.7.
>>>
>>
>> In terms of resolving this PEP, if Guido doesn't feel inclined to wade
>> into the intricacies of legacy C locale handling, Barry has indicated he'd
>> be happy to act as BDFL-Delegate :)
>>
>
> Hi Nick and Barry, I'd very much appreciate if you two could resolve this
> without involving me.
>

OK, I've added Barry to the PEP as BDFL-Delegate:
https://github.com/python/peps/commit/4c46c5710031cac03a8d1ab7639272957998a1cc

Thanks for the quick response!

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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