That's not sane at all, because then you can't send e.g. Japanese arguments to tools that support wide chars or have UTF-8 codepage in their manifest. And then

That's not sane at all, because then you can't send e.g. Japanese arguments to tools that support wide chars or have UTF-8 codepage in their manifest. And then there's yet another difference between Python versions to trip you up. And why should the default not allow internationalisation? Doesn't fit with the idea of Python 3.