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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: 0.199s | 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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rootext ◴[26 Apr 24 14:00 UTC] No.40169499[source]▶
It seems you are mixing two things: inner string representation and read/write encoding. Java has never used UTF-16 as default for the second.
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1. Dwedit ◴[27 Apr 24 02:36 UTC] No.40176650[source]▶
Or possibly confusing it with JavaScript, which treats strings as sequences of UTF-16 characters?