Is there really a default source encoding?

[Alexander Schmolck]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> Right. The default encoding is Latin-1, for compatibility with previous
> releases. However, reliance on the default encoding is deprecated, and the
> default encoding will change to ASCII in 2.4. According to the guidelines for

Why not just utf-8? At least the move to ascii might be a (roundabout) step in
that direction...

alex