[Python-Dev] PEP 263 -- Python Source Code Encoding (original) (raw)

Finn Bock bckfnn@worldonline.dk
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:44:39 GMT

[MAL]

I consider the above PEP ready for review by the developers. Please comment.

The pep seems to dictate that the source by default must be read as latin-1:

""" Python will default to Latin-1 as standard encoding if no other encoding hints are given. """

Jython already reads the python source with the default java encoding which usually depends on the PCs locale.

If a small loophole could be added to that requirement, then the pep have my full support.

regards, finn