Hi!
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Victor Stinner
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Always use UTF-8
> ----------------
>
> Python already always use the UTF-8 encoding on Mac OS X, Android and Windows.
> Since UTF-8 became the defacto encoding, it makes sense to always use it on
> all
> platforms with any locale.
Please don't! I use different locales and encodings, sometimes it's
utf-8, sometimes not - but I have properly configured LC_* settings and
I prefer Python to follow my command. It'd be disgusting if Python
starts to bend me to its preferences.
> The risk is to introduce mojibake if the locale uses a different encoding,
> especially for locales other than the POSIX locale.
There is no such risk for me as I already have mojibake in my
systems. Two most notable sources of mojibake are:
1) FTP servers - people create files (both names and content) in
different encodings; w32 FTP clients usually send file names and
content in cp1251 (Russian Windows encoding), sometimes in cp866
(Russian Windows OEM encoding).
2) MP3 tags and play lists - almost always cp1251.
So whatever my personal encoding is - koi8-r or utf-8 - I have to
deal with file names and content in different encodings.
Oleg.
--
Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ [email protected]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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