[docutils:bugs] #490 EncodingWarnings in io module

- **status**: open-fixed --> closed-fixed
- **Comment**:

The bug is fixed in Docutils 0.22 released 2025-07-29.
Thanks agaoin for reporting.




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**[bugs:#490] EncodingWarnings in io module**

**Status:** closed-fixed
**Created:** Fri Jun 28, 2024 03:34 PM UTC by Jason R. Coombs
**Last Updated:** Wed Aug 07, 2024 03:57 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody


When running the [distutils](https://github.com/pypa/distutils) tests with `PYTHONWARNDEFAULTENCODING=1`, two warnings are emitted:

```
distutils/tests/test_check.py::TestCheck::test_check_restructuredtext
  /Users/jaraco/code/pypa/distutils/.tox/py/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docutils/io.py:381: EncodingWarning: 'encoding' argument not specified
    self.source = open(source_path, mode,

distutils/tests/test_check.py::TestCheck::test_check_restructuredtext
  /Users/jaraco/code/pypa/distutils/.tox/py/lib/python3.12/site-packages/docutils/io.py:151: EncodingWarning: UTF-8 Mode affects locale.getpreferredencoding(). Consider locale.getencoding() instead.
    fallback = locale.getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale=False)
```

Docutils should honor [PEP 597](https://peps.python.org/pep-0597/) and address these warnings (and possibly others). In my experience, adding `encoding='utf-8'` to any io operation is the best approach - it's straight-up compatible with the default on non-Windows systems and usually honoring the Unix convention is suitable if not preferable on Windows. Not only that, but that behavior will become the default in Python 3.15 or so.


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