On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+sams...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to > UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule: > > 'Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other > encoding hints are given. > > To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed > into the source files either as first or second line in the file' So this is only Python 2, right? Python 3 is UTF8 by default. Given that Python 2 is EOL in January, is this something we should be concerned about? Or should we instead be making sure that all the Python we have in-tree works properly with Python 3 and be done with it? Thanks, jon
