On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 at 11:16 Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote:
> [SNIP] > > Finally, the encoding of stdin, stdout and stderr are currently > (correctly) inferred from the encoding of the console window that Python > is attached to. However, this is typically a codepage that is different > from the system codepage (i.e. it's not mbcs) and is almost certainly > not Unicode. If users are starting Python from a console, they can use > "chcp 65001" first to switch to UTF-8, and then *most* functionality > works (input() has some issues, but those can be fixed with a slight > rewrite and possibly breaking readline hooks). > > It is also possible for Python to change the current console encoding to > be UTF-8 on initialize and change it back on finalize. (This would leave > the console in an unexpected state if Python segfaults, but console > encoding is probably the least of anyone's worries at that point.) So > I'm proposing actively changing the current console to be Unicode while > Python is running, and hence sys.std[in|out|err] will default to utf-8. > > So that's a broad range of changes, and I have little hope of figuring > out all the possible issues, back-compat risks, and flow-on effects on > my own. Please let me know (either on-list or off-list) how a change > like this would affect your projects, either positively or negatively, > and whether you have any specific experience with these changes/fixes > and think they should be approached differently. > > > To summarise the proposals (remembering that these would only affect > Python 3.6 on Windows): > > [SNIP] > * force the console encoding to UTF-8 on initialize and revert on finalize > Don't have enough Windows experience to comment on the other parts of this proposal, but for the console encoding I am a hearty +1 as I'm tired of Unicode characters failing to show up in the REPL.
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