Comment 6 for bug 1657969

In python3 yes, finally !

I don't have the reference handy but the bzr devs argued about having that default in python2 and... couldn't get it.

I think that's pretty much the status right now, handling that "assume-utf8 default" (i.e. changing the actual behaviour) is not trivial especially given the bzr promise that unicode filenames are supported across different OSes (including non-Unix ones).

The actual behaviour is that the user has to specify which file system encoding he wants, knowing that python2 default may not be correct in all cases.

And as you found out, this is under user control via the locale env vars.