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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:04:15 +0100

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

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)

Fine with me.

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

is "or" a good idea here?

Good question. I'll leave that to the Windows experts ;-)

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