[issue10187] exec encode unicode to utf-8 str automatically in GBK environment

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

This is not a bug, but intentional.

a is a Unicode string; it does not have an encoding internally (not GBK, not UTF-8). Then, the string being exec'ed also becomes a Unicode string. exec'ing Unicode strings is confusing; try to avoid this. The semantics of exec'ing a Unicode string is that all str (but not unicode) literals get encoded as UTF-8.

To see the result you expect, write

a = "麓贸"

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nosy: +loewis
resolution:  -> invalid
status: open -> closed

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