STINNER Victor added the comment:
> I am -1 on this. (Or may be more). What's the rationale?
See the issue #19977.
In many cases you get the C locale by mistake. For example, by setting the LANG
environment variable to an empty string to run a program in english (whereas
LC_MESSAGES is the appropriate variable).
For deamons, in many cases you get the C locale and it's hard to configure all
systems to run the daemon with the user locale. I read that systemd runs
daemons with the user locale, but I'm not sure.
The idea is to reduce the pain caused by this locale. When porting an
application from Python 2 to Python 3, it's annoying to start to get unicode
errors everywhere. This issue starts to make Python 3 more convinient.
> I could see using utf-8 by default if the locale is C,
This has been proposed many times, but I'm opposed to that. Python must be
interoperable with other programs, and other programs use the locale encoding.
For example, you get the ASCII locale encoding when the LC_CTYPE is the POSIX
locale ("C"). If Python writes UTF-8, other applications will be unable to
decode UTF-8 data.
Maybe I'm wrong and you should continue to investigate this option.
This issue is very specific to "OS" data: environment variables, filenames,
command line arguments, standard streams (stdin, stdout, stderr). You may do
other choices for other kind of data unrelated to the locale encoding. For
example, JSON must use UTF-8, it's well defined. XML announces its encoding.
etc.
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