On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Thomas Spura <toms...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > To change the default encoding for python was proposed a while ago [1], but > was finally dropped again, as upstream didn't agree to this change. Did > anything changed here from upstream python? > > Best, > Thomas > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PythonEncodingUsesSystemLocale > The Feature to change the encoding in Python2 was problematic because of its implementation. It lead to some pretty nasty problems such as breaking dictionaries. See my blog post about that: https://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/why-sys-setdefaultencoding-will-break-code/ So the difference here is that the proposal is to change the locale. That won't mess with the low-level handling of data structures that messing with sys.setdefaultencoding would. One of the things that makes changing the locale easier is that Fedora now supports a C.UTF8 locale. So Fedora now ships with a UTF8 capable fallback. If we'd tried to implement this precise change before the nearest equivalent of a universal utf8-capable locale would have been something like en_US.UTF8 which a significant minority would not have found as universal as we would have liked. -Toshio _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
