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From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Em Thu, 5 Sep 2019 06:57:01 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:

> On Thu,  5 Sep 2019 06:23:13 -0300
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Python's PEP-263 [1] dictates that an script that needs to default to
> > UTF-8 encoding has to follow this rule:
> > 
> > 	'Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other
> > 	 encoding hints are given.
> > 
> > 	 To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed
> > 	 into the source files either as first or second line in the file'  
> 
> So this is only Python 2, right?  Python 3 is UTF8 by default.  Given that
> Python 2 is EOL in January, is this something we should be concerned
> about?  Or should we instead be making sure that all the Python we have
> in-tree works properly with Python 3 and be done with it?

I don't think we can count that python 3 uses utf-8 per default.

I strongly suspect that, if one uses a Python3 version < 3.7, it will
still default to ASCII.

On a quick look, the new UTF-8 mode was added on PEP-540:

	https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/

Such change happened at Python 3.7. 

Yet, according with PEP, it defaults to off, unless when using POSIX 
locale.

Thanks,
Mauro