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Author	eryksun
Recipients	eryksun, ezio.melotti, rushant, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2021-03-27.00:06:43
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Message-id	<1616803603.94.0.0904383954861.issue43576@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> If you are lost with locale encodings, you can attempt to encode > everything in UTF-8 and enables the Python UTF-8 Mode: rushant is using Python 3.6. UTF-8 mode was added in 3.7, so it's not an option without first upgrading to 3.7. Also, it's important to note that the suggestion to "attempt to encode everything in UTF-8" includes whatever terminal encoding or shell-script file encoding is used for `export a="中文"`. If it's not using UTF-8, then setting the preferred encoding in Python to UTF-8 isn't going to help.

> If you are lost with locale encodings, you can attempt to encode
> everything in UTF-8 and enables the Python UTF-8 Mode:

rushant is using Python 3.6. UTF-8 mode was added in 3.7, so it's not an option without first upgrading to 3.7. Also, it's important to note that the suggestion to "attempt to encode everything in UTF-8" includes whatever terminal encoding or shell-script file encoding is used for `export a="中文"`. If it's not using UTF-8, then setting the preferred encoding in Python to UTF-8 isn't going to help.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2021-03-27 00:06:43	eryksun	set	recipients: + eryksun, terry.reedy, vstinner, ezio.melotti, rushant
2021-03-27 00:06:43	eryksun	set	messageid: <1616803603.94.0.0904383954861.issue43576@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2021-03-27 00:06:43	eryksun	link	issue43576 messages
2021-03-27 00:06:43	eryksun	create