Nick Coghlan added the comment: That's the problem - even on UTF-8 systems, Linux programs will often be started in a misconfigured environment: the POSIX locale. Python 2 doesn't try to interpret the binary data as text, so it doesn't care. Python 3 *does* care, since it automatically converts several pieces of OS provided data to text using the locale encoding.
systemd tackles that by adding the extra config file to ensure *all* the environments it creates get the right config, and to provide a more reliable "source of truth" as to the actual likely encoding of system interfaces. However, a fair bit of groundwork is needed to avoid any innate reliance on the locale encoding before we can reliably override it by default, so this issue is unlikely to go anywhere before PEP 432 is implemented (and even then, actually changing the behaviour would be a separate discussion). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21368> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
