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

[Random832]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017, at 04:37, INADA Naoki wrote:
> But locale coercing works nice on platforms like android.
> So how about simplified version of PEP 538?  Just adding configure
> option for locale coercing
> which is disabled by default.  No envvar options and no warnings.

A configure option just kicks the decision to packagers - either no-one
uses it (and thus it solves nothing) or people do use it (and any
problems it causes won't be mitigated at all)