OpenRV not defaulting to UTF-8

[mircotornow]

Hello guys,

we have a problem with our OpenRV build that seems mysterious to us.
When using open() with files that have non-ascii characters Open RV gives an error.
(['ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 7176: ordinal not in range(128)])

Putting open(encoding=utf8,...) fixes the mentioned problem, but I would really like to know why it is happening in the first place.

I figured out that OpenRV has a different encoding set than RV(2022), and I am curious if any of you experienced the same thing?:

# RV2022
import locale
locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
# -> 'UTF-8'

# OpenRV
import locale
locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
# -> 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'

RV2022 and OpenRV are opened the same way and otherwise behave the same, just the encoding is weird.

Any pointer into the right direction is appreciated!

Cheers, Mirco