Why should we NOT use sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8") in a py script?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3828...

Accepted answer links:
http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setd...
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200401/pri...
http://www.diveintopython3.net/strings.h...
[http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about...]: http://web.archive.org/web/2012072217092...
http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Getting-u...

Answer 2 links:
https://anonbadger.wordpress.com/2015/06.../
[UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 3131: invalid start byte]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3851...

Answer 4 links:
[All that it affects is implicit conversion ]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4994...
[because Python 2 actually has multiple independent "default string encodings"]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4994...

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