[Python-Dev] PEP 538 (review round 2): Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale

[Nick Coghlan]

On 28 May 2017 at 16:46, INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I approve the PEP 538.
>
> It's side-effect (just set LC_CTYPE envvar) seems simple enough and
> moderate enough.
>
> Locale coercion will save people from unwanted mojibake (escaped string)
> and locale warning will navigate people to configure locale properly.
>
> And there are configure options and envvar option to disable it for people
> who want to continue to use C locale explicitly.
>
> Congrats, Nick!

Thank you! And thank you for your work in reviewing the PEP - I think
the accepted version is a significant improvement over the more
intrusive design I originally proposed downstream in Fedora :)

Regards,
Nick.

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