[Python-Dev] open(): set the default encoding to 'utf-8' in Python 3.3? (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 17:44:02 CEST 2011


On 28 June 2011 16:06, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden at googlemail.com> wrote:

@ Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote (2011-06-28 16:46+0200):

UTF-8 without BOM displays incorrectly in vim(1) Stop right now (you're oh so wrong)!  :-)

Sorry. Please add "using the default settings of gvim on Windows". My context throughout was Windows not Unix. Sorry I didn't make that clear.

(By the way: UTF-8 and BOM?

Windows uses it, I believe. My tests specifically used files with no BOM, just utf8-encoded text. I made this statement to head off people assuming that UTF8 can be detected in Windows by looking at the first few bytes.

Interesting things i learn on this list.

:-)

And i hope in ten years we can laugh about this -> UTF-8 transition all over the place, 'cause it's simply working.)

That would be good...

Paul.



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