On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 3:58 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote:
> Congratulation INADA-san! I'm impressed by your tenacity :-) > +1. Great work! > Last months, I followed your different propositions on > discuss.python.org to use UTF-8 by default in Python. It's good to see > the first non-controversial part being accepted! I hope that this PEP > will help to move towards a world where we don't guess encodings > anymore, but make them very explicit! > Actually, the "north star" here is a world where nobody has to think about encodings any more. That, and world peace. > Once the whole stdlib and most of top PyPI projects will be fixed to > no longer emit EncodingWarning, I will become safer to opt-in for > UTF-8 by default by enabling the Python UTF-8 Mode! > https://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#python-utf-8-mode > > One day, we will silently switch Python to UTF-8 by default, and > nobody will notice! ;-) > In particular it's important that nobody living in Japan or China should notice. This is also still the biggest challenge. :-( -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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