> On 5 Feb 2021, at 11:49, Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 8:15 PM Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The main limitation is that users can not write config file in install
>>> location when Python is installed for system, not for user.
>>
>> This is the problem that I was thinking about when I proposed using
>> a py.ini like solution where the file is looked for in the users config
>> folder.
>> I think that is the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder for py.exe.
>>
>> As Chris points out in his summary of the issue.
>>
>> How would this work for different version of python being installed and
>> needing different config?
>
> Each installation have each config file.
I'm talking about the user's override of the system default.
The system default is the easy part.
>
>> How would this work for python installed from different vendors?
>>
>
> Vendor installer should provide an option for it.
>
>> Maybe the answer is that there is only one user defined override possible
>> and all versions use it.
>>
>> Also am I right to assume that the impact of these changes would only impact
>> on Windows?
>>
>
> I think we don't have any reason to restrict this for Windows.
> But since this idea is proposed only for Windows users, only Windows
> installer will have "Enable UTF-8 mode" option.
I'm not sure that Linux and macOS suffer from this problem. Am I wrong to think
that?
Barry
>
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> Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com>
>
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