[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

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[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

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[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

STINNER Victor added the comment: > Before Vista, the code page 65001 behaved differently than official UTF-8 > codec. Vista changed that. Maybe it's time to remove Lib/encodings/cp65001.py > and make it an alias to utf_8 codec: see > https://bugs.python.org/issue36778#msg341531 FYI it's ex

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

Eryk Sun added the comment: > Maybe it's time to remove Lib/encodings/cp65001.py and make it an > alias to utf_8 codec Note that Unicode console support already assumes they're equivalent. For stdin, we read UTF-16LE via ReadConsoleW and encode bytes to the UTF-8 BufferedReader via WideChar

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

STINNER Victor added the comment: Before Vista, the code page 65001 behaved differently than official UTF-8 codec. Vista changed that. Maybe it's time to remove Lib/encodings/cp65001.py and make it an alias to utf_8 codec: see https://bugs.python.org/issue36778#msg341531 -- ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

STINNER Victor added the comment: I marked bpo-29075 as duplicate of this issue. IMHO it's too late to remove code from Python 3.8. We are too close from the feature freeze: removing Vista code is a risk of introducing subtle issue. I prefer to now wait for Python 3.9. It's not like the "dea

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- title: Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7 -> Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker ___