On 23 May 2017 at 13:41, Thomas Kluyver <tho...@kluyver.me.uk> wrote: > Can I take a quick poll of what people following this topic think? > > Q1: Default encoding for captured build stdout/stderr > a. UTF-8 (consistent, can represent any character) > b. Locale default (convenient if backend runs subprocesses which produce > output in the locale encoding) > > Q2: Handling unknown encodings from subprocesses > a. Backend should ensure all output is valid in the target encoding > (Q1), though it may not be accurate. > b. Unknown output may be passed on as bytes without transcoding, so the > frontend can e.g. dump it to a file. > > I'm currently 1:a, 2:?a .
You probably know this, but I'm 1: b, 2: mild preference for a, but not too bothered. If the answer to 1 is a, though, I strongly prefer 2: a. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
