Nick Coghlan added the comment: The default encoding in the C/POSIX locale is ASCII (which is the entire source of the problem).
The initial verison of the PEP I uploaded didn't explain that background, but I added a section about it in the update earlier this week: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/#background ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28180> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
