[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Random832]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016, at 12:35, Steve Dower wrote:
> I'm still not sure we're talking about the same thing right now.
> 
> For `open(path_as_bytes).read()`, are we talking about the way
> path_as_bytes is passed to the file system? Or the codec used to decide
> the returned string?

We are talking about the way path_as_bytes is passed to the filesystem,
and in particular what encoding path_as_bytes is *actually* in, when it
was obtained from a file or other stream opened in binary mode.