[Python-Dev] open(): set the default encoding to 'utf-8' in Python 3.3? (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jun 28 19:56:33 CEST 2011
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:06:44 -0400 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
As for practicality. Notepad++ on Windows offers ANSI, utf-8 (w,w/o BOM), utf-16 (big/little endian).
Well, that's one application. We would need much more data than that.
I believe that ODF documents are utf-8 encoded xml (compressed or not).
XML doesn't matter for this discussion, since it explicitly declares the encoding. What we are talking about is "raw" text files that don't have an encoding declaration and for which the data format doesn't specify any default encoding (which also rules out Python source code, by the way).
My original claim for this proposal was/is that even Windows apps are moving to uft-8 and that someday making that the default for Python everywhere will be the obvious and sensible thing.
True, but that may be 5 or 10 years from now.
Regards
Antoine.
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