[Python-ideas] PEP 540: Add a new UTF-8 mode

[Victor Stinner]

2017-01-06 3:10 GMT+01:00 Stephen J. Turnbull
<turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp>:
> I've quoted Victor out of context, and his other posts make me very
> doubtful that he considers this a serious alternative.  That said, I'm
> +1 on "don't!"

The "always ignore locale and force UTF-8" option has supporters. For
example, Nick Coghlan wrote a whole PEP, PEP 538, to support this.

I want that my PEP is complete and so lists all famous alternatives.

Victor