[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Paul Moore]

On 10 August 2016 at 20:08, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> On 10Aug2016 1144, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> I presume you'd be targeting 3.7 for this change.
>
> Does 3.6 seem too aggressive? I think I have time to implement the changes
> before beta 1, as it's mostly changing default values and mopping up
> resulting breaks. (Doing something like reimplementing files using the Win32
> API rather than the CRT would be too big a task for 3.6.)

I guess I just assumed it was a bigger change than that. I don't
object to it going into 3.6 as such, but it might need longer for any
debates to die down. I guess that comes down to how big this thread
gets, though.

Personally, I'd be OK with it being in 3.6, we'll see if others think
it's too aggressive :-)

> Testing with obscure filenames and strings is where help will be needed most
> :)

I'm happy to invent hard cases for you, but I'm in the UK. For real
use, the Euro symbol's about as obscure as we get around here ;-)

Paul