Em Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:57:01 -0600 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300 > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to > > UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule: > > > > 'Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other > > encoding hints are given. > > > > To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed > > into the source files either as first or second line in the file' > > So this is only Python 2, right? Python 3 is UTF8 by default. Given that > Python 2 is EOL in January, is this something we should be concerned > about? Or should we instead be making sure that all the Python we have > in-tree works properly with Python 3 and be done with it? I don't think we can count that python 3 uses utf-8 per default. I strongly suspect that, if one uses a Python3 version < 3.7, it will still default to ASCII. On a quick look, the new UTF-8 mode was added on PEP-540: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/ Such change happened at Python 3.7. Yet, according with PEP, it defaults to off, unless when using POSIX locale. Thanks, Mauro
