Python's 8-bit cleanness deprecated?

[Jeff Epler]

Roman,
Looks like the only sane thing is to screw PEP263 and let UTF-8 be the only
encoding of Python source files.

Oh, and we need to put a bullet in the head of the author of any software
that makes implicit character set conversions except from a legacy set to
UTF-8.  In the second phase of anti-PEP263, we'll put bullets in the
head of anybody who writes non-UTF-8 documents.

Jeff