[Python-3000] PEP: Python3 and UnicodeDecodeError

[Nick Coghlan]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On 2008-10-02 13:50, Victor Stinner wrote:
>> This is a PEP describing the behaviour of Python3 on UnicodeDecodeError. 
> 
> The PEP doesn't appear to address any potential changes. Wouldn't
> it be better to add such information to the Python3 documentation
> itself ?!

True, a simple wiki page would probably be adequate - once we agree on
the details, it can be added to the main Python 3 docs.

Victor - the Python wiki is also one of the easiest places to work on
early PEP drafts. See
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEnhancementProposals.

> Not only there: the C API makes various assumptions on the default
> encoding as well. We should probably drop the term "default encoding"
> altogether and replace it with "utf-8".
> 
> sys.setdefaultencoding() should probably be dropped altogether from
> Python3.

Isn't that method still there to allow other implementations to be more
permissive about allowing the default encoding to be changed?

Cheers,
Nick.

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