* Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org>, 2009-08-11, 18:10:
what about settingimport sys sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') at the beginning of bin/reportbug ?
That would be totally wrong (even though the gtk module actually seems to be doing something like this). Let me quote GvR[1]:
| The fundamental reason the designers of Python's 2.x standard library | don't want you to be able to set the default encoding in your app, is | that the standard library is written with the assumption that the | default encoding is fixed, and no guarantees about the correct | workings of the standard library can be made when you change it. There | are no tests for this situation. Nobody knows what will fail when. And | you (or worse, your users) *will* come back to us with complaints if | the standard library suddenly starts doing things you didn't expect.
[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/091418.html -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
