[issue45232] ascii codec is used by default when LANG is not set

Olivier Delhomme added the comment: >> Hi Marc-Andre, >> >> Please note that setting PYTHONUTF8 with "export PYTHONUTF8=1": >> >> * Is external to the program and user dependent >> * It does not seems to work on my use case: >> >>

[issue45232] ascii codec is used by default when LANG is not set

Olivier Delhomme added the comment: Hi Marc-Andre, Please note that setting PYTHONUTF8 with "export PYTHONUTF8=1": * Is external to the program and user dependent * It does not seems to work on my use case: $ unset LANG $ export PYTHONUTF8=1 $ python3 Python 3.6.4 (defau

[issue45232] ascii codec is used by default when LANG is not set

New submission from Olivier Delhomme : $ python3 --version Python 3.6.4 Setting LANG to en_US.UTF8 works like a charm $ export LANG=en_US.UTF8 $ python3 Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 11 2018, 16:45:55) [GCC 4.8.5] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or