Andrew Barnert writes:
> On Jan 13, 2020, at 19:32, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
> >
> > There is still tons of data in legacy
> > applications, both as text files and in various application data
> > formats, that use legacy encodings (in Japanese, that means MBCS).
> > Sadly, it's not
On 1/14/20, Inada Naoki wrote:
>
> UTF-8 mode shouldn't take precedence over legacy FS encoding.
>
> Mercurial uses legacy encoding for file paths. They use
> sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() on Windows.
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/8d5489b048b7
This runtime call can override
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:32 PM Eryk Sun wrote:
>
> In both of the above cases, what I'd prefer is for UTF-8 mode to take
> precedence over legacy modes, i.e. to disable
> config->legacy_windows_fs_encoding and config->legacy_windows_stdio in
> the startup configuration.
>
UTF-8 mode shouldn't
On Jan 13, 2020, at 19:32, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
>
> There is still tons of data in legacy
> applications, both as text files and in various application data
> formats, that use legacy encodings (in Japanese, that means MBCS).
> Sadly, it's not as simple as running "iconv -f shift_jis -t
Kyle Stanley writes:
> I'll admit though that I have no experience working with any application
> that implicitly assumes MBCS is the default encoding format, is this a
> common occurrence in some older applications?
At least in East Asia, it is. Eg, my university's student information
Inada Naoki wrote:
> 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
On 1/10/20, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2020, at 03:45, Inada Naoki wrote:
>
> Also, PYTHONUTF8 is only supported on Unix, so presumably it’s ignored if
> you set it on Windows, right?
The implementation of UTF-8 mode (i.e. -Xutf8) is cross-platform,
though I think it
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:03 AM Kyle Stanley 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
> 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
On Jan 10, 2020, at 03:45, Inada Naoki wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I believe UTF-8 should be chosen by default for text encoding.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think in Python 3.7 on Windows 10, the
filesystem encoding is already UTF-8, and the stdio console files are UTF-8
(but under the
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