On 16/08/15 16:35, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>
> 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

I've responded to this in issue2550811 to try and keep all the related 
discussion in the one issue.