[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Chris Barker]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> > In which case, something IS better than nothing.
>
>

> I'm not arguing that we do nothing. Are you saying we should use
> CP_UTF8 *in preference* to wide character APIs? Or that we should
> implement CP_UTF8 first and then wide chars later?


Honestly, I don't understand the details enough to argue either way.


> Or are we in
> violent agreement that we should implement wide chars?


probably -- to the extend I understand the issues :-)

But I am arguing that anything that makes it "better" that actually gets
implemented is better than a "right" solution that no one has the time to
 make it happen, or that we can't agree on anyway.

-CHB


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