[Python-Dev] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale

[Nick Coghlan]

On 5 March 2017 at 17:50, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Late last year I started working on a change to the CPython CLI (*not* the
> shared library) to get it to coerce the legacy C locale to something based
> on UTF-8 when a suitable locale is available.
>
> After a couple of rounds of iteration on linux-sig and python-ideas, I'm
> now bringing it to python-dev as a concrete proposal for Python 3.7.
>

In terms of resolving this PEP, if Guido doesn't feel inclined to wade into
the intricacies of legacy C locale handling, Barry has indicated he'd be
happy to act as BDFL-Delegate :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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