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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Trying to understand this moji-bake
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:31:58 -0500
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On 1/25/2014 2:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> $ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
>> UTF-8
>
> This isn't from stdin, though, it's about the interpretation of the
> bytes of source code without a magic cookie.
>
> According to PEP 263 [1], the default encoding should have become
> "ascii" as of Python 2.5. That's what puzzles me.

I believe it is actually (but unofficially) latin-1 so that latin-1 
accented chars can be used in identifiers even though only ascii is 
officially supported.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy