Hello Nick,

Thanks for the update on the issue. So far no issues have been reported for Fedora after the inclusion of the patch (which got included in F26 alpha as well).

Regards,

Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Coghlan" ncoghlan@gmail.com To: "Fedora Python SIG" python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 6:30:13 AM Subject: Status update for PEP 538 (coercing the legacy C locale to C.UTF-8)

Hi folks,

The Fedora 26 Alpha currently includes our downstream patch backporting PEP 538 to Python 3.6 - an update to CPython to implicitly coerce the legacy C locale to C.UTF-8 as the Python interpreter process starts up.

I'm still aiming to have that PEP officially accepted for 3.7 upstream before the F26 beta deadline (currently May 16th), but hit a slight hitch recently when Barry Warsaw had to withdraw as BDFL-Delegate due to a lack of sufficient time to devote to the review process.

Fortunately, Naoki Inada has agreed to take over the role, and Guido signed off on the updated delegation today: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-April/147796.html

So with any luck, we should be able to get this change explicitly approved by upstream within the next couple of weeks.

Cheers, Nick.