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Longhanks 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

It's 2024, everything but Windows is UTF-8 \n since twenty years.

int_19h 22 days ago [–]

Linux was definitely not uniformly UTF-8 twenty years ago. It was one of the many available locales, but it was still common to use other encodings, and plenty of software didn't handle multibyte well in general.

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