[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Random832]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016, at 09:23, Steve Dower wrote:
> I guess I'm not sure what your question is then.
> 
> Using text internally is of course the best way to deal with it. But for
> those who insist on using bytes, this change at least makes Windows a
> feasible target without requiring manual encoding/decoding at every
> boundary.

Why isn't it already? What's "not feasible" about requiring manual
encoding/decoding?

Basically your assumption is that people using Python on windows and
having to deal with files that contain filename data encoded as bytes
are more likely to be dealing with data that is either UTF-8 anyway
(coming from Linux or some other platform) or came from the current
version of Python (which will encode things in UTF-8 under the change)
than they are to deal with data that came from other Windows programs
that encoded things in the codepage used by them and by other Windows
users in the same country / who speak the same language.