[I18n-sig] default encoding as global state (was Re: Unicode debate)

[Peter Funk]

Ka-Ping Yee:
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> For example:
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>     >>> u"".popenc()                   # back to the Latin-1 encoding

I think 'popenc' is a very poor name.  I wondered several seconds about
the trailing 'c' on 'popen' (thinking of 'os.popen') before I realized, that
this should really mean 'pop_encoding'.

IMO this builtin stack model to deal with a global state is overkill and
inconsistent with other already existing global states.  Look for example 
at 'os.getcwd()' and 'os.chdir()'.  What about 'set_encoding()' and 
'get_encoding()'?  

You can always and easy add the stack functionality as you can
easy implement 'pushd()' and 'popd()' on top of 'os.chdir()' and
'os.getcwd()'.

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Regards, Peter