Commits on Mar 10, 2021

1. Use UTF-8 as default encoding …

   The default value for the `encoding` paramter of `load_dotenv` and
   `dotenv_values` is now `"utf-8"` instead of `None` (which selected the
   encoding based on the user's locale).  It is passed directly to
   `io.open`.
   
   The rationale for this change is that the encoding of a project file
   like `.env` should not depend on the user's locale by default.  UTF-8
   makes sense as the default encoding since it is also used for Python
   source files.  The main drawback is that it departs from `open`'s
   default value of `None` for the `encoding` parameter.
   
   The default value of `None` was a source of confusion for some users.
   The Flask and Docker Compose projects already use `encoding="utf-8"` to
   enforce the use of UTF-8 and avoid that sort of confusion.
   
   This is a breaking change but only for users with a non-UTF-8 locale and
   non-UTF-8 characters in their .env files.

   

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