Message 162329 - Python tracker

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Author	loewis
Recipients	Arfrever, lemburg, loewis, pitrou, r.david.murray, sdaoden, vstinner
Date	2012-06-05.05:37:22
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Message-id	<1338874643.0.0.0361940629538.issue11022@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think it's absolutely necessary that text files, by default, are opened in the encoding of the user's locale, whether the script has called setlocale or not. There are reasons for C to not automatically call setlocale at startup (mostly backwards compatibility), but they don't apply to Python.

I think it's absolutely necessary that text files, by default, are opened in the encoding of the user's locale, whether the script has called setlocale or not.

There are reasons for C to not automatically call setlocale at startup (mostly backwards compatibility), but they don't apply to Python.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-06-05 05:37:23	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, lemburg, pitrou, vstinner, Arfrever, r.david.murray, sdaoden
2012-06-05 05:37:23	loewis	set	messageid: <1338874643.0.0.0361940629538.issue11022@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-06-05 05:37:22	loewis	link	issue11022 messages
2012-06-05 05:37:22	loewis	create