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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: 0.208s | source
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nerdponx ◴[26 Apr 24 14:44 UTC] No.40169967[source]▶
Default text file encoding being platform-dependent always drove me nuts. This is a welcome change.

I also appreciate that they did not attempt to tackle filesystem encoding here, which is a separate issue that drives me nuts, but separately.

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1. fbdab103 ◴[26 Apr 24 17:50 UTC] No.40172228[source]▶
A different one that just bit me the other day was implicitly changing line endings. Local testing on my corporate laptop all went according to plan. Deploy to linux host and downstream application cannot consume it because it requires CRLF.

Just one of those stupid little things you have to remember from time to time. Although, why does newly written software require a specific line terminator is a valid question.