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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:38:49 +0100

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

But the Web in general provides (mandatory) protocols for identifying content-type, yet I regularly see HTML files with incorrect http-equiv meta elements, and XHTML with no encoding declaration containing Shift JIS.

which reminds me: the HTTP protocol says that a charset specified at the HTTP protocol level should override any encoding specified in the document itself.

how do we deal with this? an encoding override to compile()?