Windows-1252

One price change halves your cash bill.

Two Windows fixes stop silent file corruption.

I will show you the real command, the real output, and the single setting to send your dev before you close this tab.

Start with the money line.

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So the next drop finds you instead of you finding it on an invoice four weeks later.

The exact commands I ran, the env of our name, and the two Windows fixes are in the pinned comment below.

And the church of SEOJesus, my free school community, is where the playbook versions of these videos live and where I answer when your setup breaks.

If you were on Linux or Mac OS, you got UTF-8 by default.

If you were on Windows, you got CP-1252.

And in case you were about to snicker at those poor Windows devs, even in Unix environments, there were edge cases where you got ASCII encoding instead.

So Python 3.15 brings consistency.