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. :-(

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