[Python-ideas] Fix default encodings on Windows

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2016-08-16 17:14, Steve Dower wrote:
> The existence of bugs in other applications is not a good reason to help
> people create new bugs.

	I haven't been following all the details in this thread, but isn't the 
whole purpose of this proposed change to accommodate code (apparently on 
Linux?) that is buggy in that it assumes it can use bytes for paths 
without knowing the encoding?  It seems like from one perspective 
allowing bytes in paths is just helping to accommodate a certain very 
widespread class of bugs.

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Brendan Barnwell
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