Eryk Sun added the comment:
> On Windows we currently still default to your console encoding
In Windows, the default encoding for open() is the ANSI code page of the
current process [1], from GetACP(), which is based on the system locale, unless
it's overridden to UTF-8 in the application ma
Steve Dower added the comment:
The file that fails contains a UTF-8 BOM at the start, which is a multibyte
character indicating that the file is definitely UTF-8.
Unfortunately, none of Python's default settings will handle this, because it's
a convention that only really exists on Windows.
