That has already been decided, as much as it ever can be. UTF-8 is essentially always the correct encoding to use on output, and almost always the correct encoding to assume on input absent any explicit indication of another encoding. (e.g. the HTML "standard" says that all HTML files must be UTF-8.)
I got an email from a client with blast text that was in French with stuff like: Montréal, Quebéc. latin1 did the trick. Also, whenever I get a spreadsheet from a client and save as .csv, or take browser data through PHP, it always seems to work with latin1, but not UTF-8. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
