New submission from Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com>:
In Python 3.8+, legacy standard I/O mode uses the process code page from GetACP
instead of the correct device encoding from GetConsoleCP and
GetConsoleOutputCP. For example:
C:\>chcp 850
Active code page: 850
C:\>set PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSSTDIO=1
C:\>py -3.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
cp850
C:\>py -3.8 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
cp1252
C:\>py -3.9 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
cp1252
This is based on config_init_stdio_encoding() in Python/initconfig.c, which
sets config->stdio_encoding via config_get_locale_encoding(). Cannot
config->stdio_encoding be set to NULL for default behavior?
Computing this ahead of time would require separate encodings
config->stdin_encoding, config->stdout_encoding, and config->stderr_encoding.
And _Py_device_encoding would have to be duplicated as something like
config_get_device_encoding(PyConfig *config, int fd, wchar_t **device_encoding).
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components: IO, Interpreter Core, Windows
messages: 380329
nosy: eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Windows legacy I/O mode mistakenly ignores the device encoding
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9
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