Em Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:57:01 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net> escreveu:
> 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?
I don't think we can count that python 3 uses utf-8 per default.
I strongly suspect that, if one uses a Python3 version < 3.7, it will
still default to ASCII.
On a quick look, the new UTF-8 mode was added on PEP-540:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/
Such change happened at Python 3.7.
Yet, according with PEP, it defaults to off, unless when using POSIX
locale.
Thanks,
Mauro
