[Python-Dev] PEP 263 - default encoding (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:28:05 +0100

mal wrote:

My conclusion to all this is to withdraw the default encoding idea and replace it with the fixed ASCII default. This default won't be changeable by other means that adding an explicit header to the source file.

+1

(as long as the plan is to change ASCII to UTF-8 in some yet unspecified future version)

must use the UTF-8 coding header (and/or the BOM mark).

is "or" a good idea here?