Comment 4 for bug 9931

default encoding is still 'ascii' in dapper's python2.4 package.
is this going to get changed, has anyone talked to upstream?
there is some discussion about this on these blogs:

http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setdefaultencoding.html
http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2005/08/02/0

perhaps this should be discussed on ubuntu-devel?