Martin v. Löwis wrote:
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.
It's UTF-8 precisely to avoid cross-platform encoding problems,
especially important now that 'normal' strings are Unicode.
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