On 21 August 2016 at 06:31, Steve Dower wrote:
> My biggest concern is that it then falls onto users to know how to start
> Python with that flag.
Not necessarily, as this is one of the areas where commercial
redistributors can earn their revenue stream - by deciding that
flipping the default beh
On 20Aug2016 1231, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I'd like to suggest an option that
didn't come up on python-ideas: add such a flag to Python 3.6, and
then actively seek feedback from folks using non-UTF-8 encodings
before making a decision on what to do by default in Python 3.7.
My biggest concern is th
On 20 August 2016 at 04:59, Steve Dower wrote:
> Questions:
> * should we always use Window's Unicode APIs instead of switching between
> bytes/Unicode based on parameter type?
Yes
> * should we allow users to pass bytes and interpret them as utf-8 rather
> than letting Windows do the decoding?
