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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index 14d0579..fa3886c 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ Windows improvements: * PEP 529: :ref:`Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 <pep-529>` +* PEP 528: :ref:`Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 <pep-528>` + * The ``py.exe`` launcher, when used interactively, no longer prefers Python 2 over Python 3 when the user doesn't specify a version (via command line arguments or a config file). Handling of shebang lines @@ -267,6 +269,23 @@ Also see :pep:`487` and the updated class customization documentation at (Contributed by Martin Teichmann in :issue:`27366`) +.. _pep-528: + +PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 +------------------------------------------------- + +The default console on Windows will now accept all Unicode characters and +provide correctly read str objects to Python code. ``sys.stdin``, +``sys.stdout`` and ``sys.stderr`` now default to utf-8 encoding. + +This change only applies when using an interactive console, and not when +redirecting files or pipes. To revert to the previous behaviour for interactive +console use, set :envvar:`PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSIOENCODING`. + +.. seealso:: + + :pep:`528` -- Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 + PEP written and implemented by Steve Dower. PYTHONMALLOC environment variable ================================= |