[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese) (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
12 Mar 2002 21:32:57 +0100

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

- file I/O;

- OS filenames; - implicit mixing of 8-bit and Unicode strings; - invocation of unicode(s) or u.decode() without an encoding.

I would not suggest to support a default encoding for file content. Instead, I think there should be a "terminal encoding", which is only used for interaction with the user's terminal.

Regards, Martin