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Well what I'm saying if you have 2 different web pages, with 2 different declared encodings

Then a decent library design would let you process those in different threads in the same program

A global variable like LANG= inhibits that

So if you have metadata, it should be attached to the DATA, and not the CODE

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Same thing with a file system. You can obviously have 2 different files on the same disk with different encodings. So Python's global FS encoding and global encoding doesn't make any sense.

They are basically "punting" on the problem of where the metadata is, and the programmer often has NO WAY to solve that problem!

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The issues you mention are interesting but I think independent of what I'm saying




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