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Making UTF-8 Mode Default

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Making UTF-8 Mode Default
Date	2026-04-07 21:45 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<10r3tu7$34v12$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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From <https://peps.python.org/pep-0686/>:

    Additionally, many Python developers using Unix forget that the
    default encoding is platform dependent. They omit to specify
    encoding="utf-8" when they read text files encoded in UTF-8 (e.g.
    JSON, TOML, Markdown, and Python source files). Inconsistent
    default encoding causes many bugs.

(Raises hand) Guilty.

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