On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:03 AM Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 1. Recommend it in the official document "Using Python on Windows" [2]. > > 2. Show the UTF-8 mode status in the command line mode header [3] on > > Windows. > > 3. Show the link to the UTF-8 mode document in the command line mode header > > too. > > 4. Add checkbox to set "PYTHONUTF8=1" environment variable in the installer. > > > How do you think? > > At the least, I'm in favor of recommending UTF-8 mode in the documentation > for Windows users. It seems like it would fit well under the "Configuring > Python" section of the page > (https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#configuring-python). > > I'm undecided on the others, as I don't know what (2) and (3) would > specifically entail.
Current header is: Python 3.8.1 (tags/v3.8.1:1b293b6, Dec 18 2019, 23:11:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. I'm proposing adding one more line: UTF-8 mode is disabled. (See https://url.to/utf8mode) > As far as (4) goes: > > > If setting "PYTHONUTF8=1" environment variable is too danger > > to recommend widely, we may be able to add per-installation > > (and per-venv if needed) option file (site.cfg in the directory same to > > python.exe) to enable UTF-8 mode. > > Would you mind elaborating on this point? In particular, what specific > dangers/risks might be associated with setting that specific env var during > installation? IIRC, the installer already configures a few others by default > (I don't recall their names). > If the Python installer set PYTHONUTF8=1 environment variable, it may affects applications using embeddable Python or py2exe. So it may break applications which assume the default text encoding is "mbcs". > > But it may make Python startup process more complex... > > I would definitely prefer to have a checkbox to configure "PYTHONUTF8" during > installation rather than requiring it to be done manually, assuming it can be > done safely and effectively across different systems. Not only for the sake > of lowering complexity, but also because it takes less time and effort. That > can add up significantly when you consider the volume of users. > Even when we add per-installation config file, we can add it from the Python installer. -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YCPTZJGHA3TMRPEU7JWQE3PUKICSU3HR/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
