Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Lew Pitcher > <lew.pitc...@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote: >> >> What in "Try changing your target encoding to something other than ASCII" >> is encouragement to use "old legacy encodings"? >> >>> In 2017, unless you are reading from old legacy files created using a >>> non-Unicode encoding, you should just use UTF-8. >> >> Thanks for your opinion. My opinion differs. > > So what encoding *do* you recommend, and why is it better than UTF-8?
I recommend whatever encoding is appropriate for the output. That's not up to you or me to decide; that's a question that only the OP can answer. (Imagine, python on an IBM Zseries running ZOS; the "native" characterset is one of the EBCDIC variants. Would UTF-8 be a better choice there? ) -- Lew Pitcher "In Skills, We Trust" PGP public key available upon request -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list