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authorNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2017-06-11 03:16:15 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-06-11 03:16:15 (GMT)
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bpo-28180: Implementation for PEP 538 (#659)
- new PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE config setting - coerces legacy C locale to C.UTF-8, C.utf8 or UTF-8 by default - always uses C.UTF-8 on Android - uses `surrogateescape` on stdin and stdout in the coercion target locales - configure option to disable locale coercion at build time - configure option to disable C locale warning at build time
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ What's New in Python 3.7.0 alpha 1?
Core and Builtins
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+- bpo-28180: Implement PEP 538 (legacy C locale coercion). This means that when
+ a suitable coercion target locale is available, both the core interpreter and
+ locale-aware C extensions will assume the use of UTF-8 as the default text
+ encoding, rather than ASCII.
+
- bpo-30486: Allows setting cell values for __closure__. Patch by Lisa Roach.
- bpo-30537: itertools.islice now accepts integer-like objects (having