[issue28180] sys.getfilesystemencoding() should default to utf-8

[INADA Naoki]

INADA Naoki added the comment:

> That isn't the case on other *nix systems - there, we need CPython to be consistent with the configured C/C++ locale, *and* we need it to be using something other than ASCII as the default encoding.

Isn't using UTF-8 as filesystem encoding and stdin/stdout encoding consistent with C or POSIX locale?

Don't "modern" programming environments (Rust, Go, node.js) use UTF-8 even if locale is C or POSIX?

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