How to change the stdin encoding on python

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Hi,

I'm using windows and linux machines for the same project. The default encoding for stdin on windows is cp1252 and on linux is utf-8.

I would like to change everything to uft-8. Is it possible? How can I do it?

Thanks Eduardo

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