[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Paul Moore]

On 12 August 2016 at 18:05, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I
>> understand Steve's point about being an improvement over 100% wrong,
>> but we've lived with the current state of affairs long enough that I
>> think we should take whatever time is needed to do it right,
>
>
> Sure -- but his is such a freakin' mess that there may well not BE a "right"
> solution.
>
> In which case, something IS better than nothing.

Using Unicode APIs for console IO *is* better. Powershell does it, and
it works there. All I'm saying is that we should focus on that as our
"improved solution", rather than looking at CP_UTF8 as a "quick and
dirty" solution, as there's no evidence that people need "quick and
dirty" (they have win_unicode_console if the current state of affairs
isn't sufficient for them).

I'm not arguing that we do nothing. Are you saying we should use
CP_UTF8 *in preference* to wide character APIs? Or that we should
implement CP_UTF8 first and then wide chars later? Or are we in
violent agreement that we should implement wide chars?

Paul