[issue45232] ascii codec is used by default when LANG is not set

[Olivier Delhomme]

Olivier Delhomme <olivier.delhomme at cea.fr> added the comment:

Hi Marc-Andre,

Please note that setting PYTHONUTF8 with "export PYTHONUTF8=1":

* Is external to the program and user dependent
* It does not seems to work on my use case:

  $ unset LANG
  $ export PYTHONUTF8=1
  $ python3 
  Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 11 2018, 16:45:55) 
  [GCC 4.8.5] on linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> machaine='ééééhelp me if you can'
     File "<stdin>", line 0
    
       ^
   SyntaxError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)


Regards,

Olivier.

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