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PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

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238 points GalaxySnail | 1 comments | 26 Apr 24 11:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Macha ◴[26 Apr 24 13:02 UTC] No.40168944[source]▶
> And many other popular programming languages, including Node.js, Go, Rust, and Java uses UTF-8 by default.

Oh, I missed Java moving from UTF-16 to UTF-8.

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1. hashmash ◴[26 Apr 24 14:01 UTC] No.40169530[source]▶
With Java, the default encoding when converting bytes to strings was originally platform independent, but now it's UTF-8. UTF-16 and latin-1 encodings are (still*) used internally by the String class, and the JVM uses a modified UTF-8 encoding like it always has.

* The String class originally only used UTF-16 encoding, but since Java 9 it also uses a single-byte-per-character latin-1 encoding when possible.