[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Random832]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016, at 17:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
> AIUI, the data flow would be: Python bytes object 

Nothing _starts_ as a Python bytes object. It has to be read from
somewhere or encoded in the source code as a literal. The scenario is
very different for "defined internally within the program" (how are
these not gonna be ASCII) vs "user input" (user input how? from the
console? from tkinter? how'd that get converted to bytes?) vs "from a
network or something like a tar file where it represents a path on some
other system" (in which case it's in whatever encoding that system used,
or *maybe* an encoding defined as part of the network protocol or file
format).

The use case has not been described adequately enough to answer my
question.