[Python-ideas] Re: Enhancing Zipapp

Yours, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer pythonmembers.club | github Mauritius On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 8:08 PM Christopher Barker wrote: > > >> Maybe we can have a PYZ directory where the >> packages for each app are extracted then it'

[Python-ideas] Re: Recommend UTF-8 mode on Windows

Kyle Stanley writes: > I'll admit though that I have no experience working with any application > that implicitly assumes MBCS is the default encoding format, is this a > common occurrence in some older applications? At least in East Asia, it is. Eg, my university's student information system

[Python-ideas] Re: Recommend UTF-8 mode on Windows

On Jan 13, 2020, at 19:32, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > There is still tons of data in legacy > applications, both as text files and in various application data > formats, that use legacy encodings (in Japanese, that means MBCS). > Sadly, it's not as simple as running "iconv -f shift_jis -t u