Ok, I modified my PEP: the POSIX locale now enables the UTF-8 mode. 2017-01-05 18:10 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: > A common request is that "Python just works" without having to pass a > command line option or set an environment variable. Maybe the default > behaviour should be left unchanged, but the behaviour with the POSIX > locale should change.
http://bugs.python.org/issue28180 asks to "change the default" to get a Python which "just works" without any kind of configuration, in the context of a Docker image (I don't any detail about the image yet). > Maybe we can enable the UTF-8 mode (or "UNIX mode") of the PEP 540 > when the POSIX locale is used? I read again other issues and I confirm that users are looking for a Python 3 which behaves like Python 2: simply don't bother them with encodings. I see the UTF-8 mode as an opportunity to answer to this request. Moreover, the most common cause of encoding issues is a program run with no locale variable set and so using the POSIX locale. So I modified my PEP 540: the POSIX locale now enables the UTF-8 mode. I had to update the "Backward Compatibility" section since the PEP now introduces a backward incompatible change (POSIX locale), but my bet is that the new behaviour is the one expected by users and that it cannot break applications. I moved my initial proposition as an alternative. I added a "Use Cases" section to explain in depth the "always work" behaviour, which I called the "UNIX mode" in my previous email. Latest version of the PEP: https://github.com/python/peps/blob/master/pep-0540.txt https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/ will be updated shortly. Victor _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
