[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1 (io-in-c) (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 19:17:16 CET 2009

2009/1/28 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

Paul Moore wrote:

Hmm, I just checked and on Windows, it appears that sys.getdefaultencoding() is UTF-8. That seems odd - I would have thought the majority of Windows systems were NOT set to use UTF-8 by default... In Python 3, sys.getdefaultencoding() is "utf-8" on all platforms, just as it was "ascii" in 2.x, on all platforms. The default encoding isn't used for I/O; check f.encoding to find out what encoding is used to read the file you are reading.

Thanks for the explanation. It might be clearer to document this a little more explicitly in the docs for open() (on the basis that people using open() are the most likely to be naive about encodings). I'll see if I can come up with an appropriate doc patch.

Paul.

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