PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default Author: Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> Discussions-To: Discourse thread Status: Accepted Type: Standards Track Created: 18-Mar-2022 Python-Version: 3.15 Post-History: 18-Mar-2022, 31-Mar-2022 Resolution: Discourse message Table of Contents Abstract Motivation Specification Enable UTF-8 mode by default locale.getencoding() Fixing encoding="locale" option B