>> The only supported default encodings in Python are: >> >> Python 2.x: ASCII >> Python 3.x: UTF-8 >> > > Is this true?
For 3.x: yes. However, the default encoding is much less relevant in 3.x, since Python will never implicitly use the default encoding, except when some C module asks for a char*. In particular, ordering between bytes and unicodes causes a type error always. > I thought the default encoding in Python 3 was platform > specific (i.e. cp1252 on Windows). Not at all. You are confusing this with the IO encoding of text files, which indeed defaults to the locale encoding (and CP_ACP on Windows specifically - which may or may not be cp1252). The default encoding (i.e. the one you could theoretically set with sys.setdefaultencoding) in 3.x is UTF-8. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
