gbrandonp/ipython — comment on commit 4b8c7129a0f67a8215c9ceb9e23422418c6ced10
File: IPython/utils/py3compat.py line 46
By takluyver:

Yes, I was thinking of a fixed `defaultencoding` variable at the module level. But on reflection, let's not stick it into this pull request, which is already getting quite big. Subprocesses shouldn't present a problem, unless I'm missing something.