Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:

Change the default encoding to 'ascii' (it was previously
defined as UTF-8).

Note: The implementation still uses UTF-8 to implement
the buffer protocol, so C APIs will still see UTF-8. This
is on purpose: rather than fixing the Unicode implementation,
the C APIs should be made Unicode aware.

diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index fa7c5ea2e61fe201d4b394ec9c29fbfd2935f9f2..c7f9803b16a42f6434f3fb8c7b019839afddf870 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -4710,7 +4710,7 @@ void _PyUnicode_Init()
 
     /* Init the implementation */
     unicode_empty = _PyUnicode_New(0);
-    strcpy(unicode_default_encoding, "utf-8");
+    strcpy(unicode_default_encoding, "ascii");
 }
 
 /* Finalize the Unicode implementation */