Python 3 is killing Python

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 4:16:45 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> In unix and linux, there never was a separate text mode for files. When
> you open a file, you open a file -- and stuff bytes in it. There is no
> commonly accepted text file encoding. UTF-8 comes close to being a
> standard, but I know somebody who sticks to an ISO-8859-1 locale.

Here's the Solaris docs:

| The C locale, also known as the POSIX locale, is the POSIX system
| default locale for all POSIX-compliant systems. The Oracle Solaris
| operating system is a POSIX system. The Single UNIX Specification,
| Version 3, defines the C locale. You can register at
| http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html to read and download the
| specification.
|
| http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26033/glmbx.html#glmar

Layman version:

ASCII - also known as the Unix locale - is the default for all *nix
compliant systems.

expanded further at 
http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html