René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"unpack should decode string types by default","articleBody":"msgpack has native text and binary types, but the default behavior of `msgpack.unpackb`  of the text type is to return the still-encoded bytes, rather than the decoded text (unicode on Python 2, str on Python 3). The msgpack spec [specifies](https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md#type-system) that strings are utf-8, so it should be a logical default.\n\nChanging the default value for `Unpacker.encoding` from `None` to `utf-8` would introduce the desired behavior, but it would be problematic for anyone relying on the default behavior. So I thought I would ask before opening a PR. Would a pull request with this change be accepted?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/minrk","@type":"Person","name":"minrk"},"datePublished":"2014-05-16T21:38:50.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":13},"url":"https://github.com/99/msgpack-python/issues/99"}