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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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Euphorbium ◴[26 Apr 24 14:53 UTC] No.40170122[source]▶
I thought it was default since python 3.
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1. d0mine ◴[26 Apr 24 19:50 UTC] No.40173404[source]▶
The Python source code is utf-8 by default in Python 3. But it says nothing about a character encoding used to save to a file. It is locale-dependent by default.

    # string literals create str objects using utf-8 by default
    Path("filenames use their own encoding").write_text("file content encoding uses yet another encoding")
The corresponding encodings are:

- utf-8 [tokenize.open] - sys.getfilesystemencoding() [os.fsencode] - locale.getpreferredencoding() [open]