[Python-Dev] PEP 385: the charset issue (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Wed Aug 5 16:58:57 CEST 2009


On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:12:08AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Yep - while SVN does support full mimetype specification for files, I don't think we have ever used it.

These files are in 8859-1 encoding (names in comments, at least): http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/encodings/punycode.py http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/test/test_csv.py http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Tools/i18n/pygettext.py If they are not marked as "text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1" I think it's a bug. Either they should be marked, or converted to ascii or utf-8; the coding pseudocomment (directive) should be changed accordingly. Probably there are other files.

Oleg.

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