On 1/8/21 6:14 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 16:44, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> wrote: >> >> On 1/8/21 4:38 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> Should we also be opening the output file explicitly as >>> utf-8 ? (How do we say "write to sys.stdout as utf-8" for >>> the case where we're doing that?) >> >> I have been wondering about it, but the content written >> in the output file is plain C code using only ASCII, >> which any locale is able to process. But indeed maybe >> we prefer ignore the user locale... I'm not sure. > > I'm not a python expert so I don't know what the usual thing > is here, but it seems to me better to insulate our build > process from what the user's locale happens to be set to, > even if it happens that we currently only output ASCII.
OK, I'll respin.
