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PEP 528 – Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 | peps.python.org

https://peps.python.org/pep-0528

“Historically, Python uses the ANSI APIs for interacting with the Windows operating system, often via C Runtime functions. However, these have been long discouraged in favor of the UTF-16 APIs. Within the operating system, all text is represented as UTF-...” (the page’s own description)

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