On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:41 PM, John Kristensen <issues@roundup-tracker.org> wrote:

 * I'm of the opinion that issue2550811 should be dropped as a blocker
for a v1.5.1 release

Thinking about this, I am in favor of recommending UTF-8 mode for Jinja2
setup. sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') sounds like a hack, but I fail to see
where exactly it is harmful.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28657010/dangers-of-sys-setdefaultencodingutf-8