making 'utf-8' default codec

[Jorge Godoy]

Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda at o2.usun.pl> writes:

> Bad idea. You may accidentally break some libraries that depend on ASCII
> being default & standard.

And what would those produce as output when fed with unicode data?  How would
they handle this input?  IMVHO nothing should rely on having a standard
charset as input.  If it is required, then the library should set it up by
itself: explicit is better than implicit.

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