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[Python-Dev] PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Tue Sep 6 09:22:55 EDT 2016 
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, at 06:34, Martin Panter wrote:
> Yes, that was basically it. Though I had only thought as far as simple
> encodings like ASCII, where one byte corresponds to one character. I
> wonder if you really need UTF-8 support. Are the encoding values
> currently encountered for Windows consoles all single-byte encodings
> or are they more complicated?

Windows supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean encodings (code pages
936, 932, 949) that are multi-byte with one or two bytes per character.
I'm not sure how that affects this though or what your point about not
needing UTF-8 is.
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