On 6/28/2011 10:06 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:43:05 +0200
Victor Stinner<[email protected]> wrote:
- ISO-8859-1 os some FreeBSD systems
- ANSI code page on Windows, e.g. cp1252 (close to ISO-8859-1) in
Western Europe, cp952 in Japan, ...
- ASCII if the locale is manually set to an empty string or to "C", or
if the environment is empty, or by default on some systems
- something different depending on the system and user configuration...
Why would utf-8 be the right thing in these cases?
Because utf-8 is the only way to write out any Python 3 text.
By default, writing and reading an str object should work on all Python
installations.
And because other apps are (increasingly) using it for exactly the same
reason.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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