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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Hi Nick and Barry, I'd very much appreciate if you two could resolve this
without involving me. Godspeed!

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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