Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale

2017-03-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 12 March 2017 at 08:36, Jakub Wilk wrote: > This is a very bad idea. > > It seems to based on an assumption that the C locale is always some kind > of pathology. Admittedly, it sometimes is a result of misconfiguration or a > mistake. (But I don't see why it's the interpreter's job to correct

[Python-Dev] Application support

2017-03-12 Thread Ryan James Kenneth Murray
To whom it may concern, I was about to use Markdown to verify or indicate any changes to the files when I was directed to c python and pep, however I have reached my abilities in understanding or contributing. I will have to broden my knowledge and insight into python. That is why I am asking for

Re: [Python-Dev] Application support

2017-03-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hello Ryan, Welcome! My response is below. On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:49:13AM -0700, Ryan James Kenneth Murray wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I was about to use Markdown to verify or indicate any changes to the files > when I was directed to c python and pep, however I have reached my > a

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 538: Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale

2017-03-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 12 March 2017 at 22:57, Nick Coghlan wrote: > However, I'm also open to having [PYTHONCOERCECLOCALE=0] also disable the > runtime warning from the shared library. > Considering this a little further, I think this is going to be necessary in order to sensibly handle the build time "--with[out]