Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment:
This statement is no longer correct: "when python starts, it runs using the C locale, on any platform (Windows, Linux, BSD), any python version (2, 3...), until locale.setlocale() is used to set another locale." The Python 3 text model doesn't work properly in the legacy C locale due to the assumption of ASCII as the preferred text encoding, so we run setlocale(LC_ALL, "") early in the startup sequence in order to switch to something more sensible. In Python 3.7+, we're even more opinionated about that, and explicitly coerce the C locale to a UTF-8 based one if there's one available. If our docs are still saying otherwise anywhere, then our docs are outdated, and need to be fixed. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python stage: -> needs patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33934> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
