On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:28:10 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That PEP is to override the locale and use utf8 unconditionally. It says, with regard to the pre-PEP state: UTF-8 is also the default encoding of Python scripts, XML and JSON file formats. Unicode was the reason for much of the Python 3 pain; it seems unlikely that many installations are defaulting to ASCII anyway...? jon
