Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Using an environment variable is not the holy grail for this. On > writing a non-single-user application you can't expect the user to set > extra environment variables.
I am not understanding why the user would have to set anything at all. What is the use case for per-user encoding settings? I understand that passing LANG=C (e.g. to disable a program's translations) forces ASCII instead of UTF-8, which is a flaw. Perhaps the filesystem encoding should be set to UTF-8 when the system locale says ASCII. (OTOH, it's IMHO a system bug that LANG=C forces the ASCII charset; we're not in the 80s anymore) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19846> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
