[Python-Dev] PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 (original) (raw)

Adam Bartoš drekin at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 05:59:27 EDT 2016

Steve Dower (steve.dower at python.org) on Thu Sep 1 18:28:53 EDT 2016 wrote

I'm about to be offline for a few days, so I wanted to get my current

draft PEPs out for people can read and review.

I don't believe there is a lot of change as a result of either PEP, but the impact of what change there is needs to be weighed against the benefits. If anything, I'm likely to have underplayed the impact of this change (though I've had a lot of support for this one). Just stating my biases up-front - take it as you wish. See https://bugs.python.org/issue1602 for the current proposed patch for this PEP. I will likely update it after my upcoming flights, but it's in pretty good shape right now. Cheers, Steve Did you consider that the hard-wired readline hook _PyOS_WindowsConsoleReadline won't be needed in future if http://bugs.python.org/issue17620 gets resolved so the default hook on Windows just reads from sys.stdin? This would also reduce code duplicity and all the Read/WriteConsoleW stuff would be gathered together in one special class.

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