Python's requests library maintainers insisted on sticking with this annoying and surprising rule (default charset of ISO-8859-1), because that's what the RFC s

Python's requests library maintainers insisted on sticking with this annoying and surprising rule (default charset of ISO-8859-1), because that's what the RFC says they should do. Hopefully, they'll reconsider now. https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1737 https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1737 https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2086 https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/2086