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

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

I just pushed an update to PEP 538 based on PEP 540 and the feedback in the linux-sig discussion: https://github.com/python/peps/commit/221099d8765125bbd798e869846b005bcca84b47

I'll be starting a thread for that on python-ideas shortly, but in the context of the discussion here:

* There are good reasons to go back to strict error handling by default on the standard streams when we're using UTF-8 as the default encoding rather than ASCII: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/#using-strict-error-handling-by-default
* The right overall answer might actually be to create a hybrid merger of the two PEPs, rather than seeing them as strictly competitors: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/#relationship-with-other-peps

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