[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Nick Coghlan]

On 11 August 2016 at 13:26, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 August 2016 at 04:10, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect there's a lot of discussion to be had around this topic, so I want to get it started. There are some fairly drastic ideas here and I need help figuring out whether the impact outweighs the value.
>
> My main reaction would be that if Drekin (Adam Bartoš) agrees the
> changes natively solve the problems that
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/win_unicode_console works around, it's
> probably a good idea.

Also, a reminder that Adam has a couple of proposals on the tracker
aimed at getting CPython to use a UTF-16-LE console on Windows:
http://bugs.python.org/issue22555#msg242943 (last two issue references
in that comment)

Cheers,
Nick.

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