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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:58:54 -0500

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

I missed this. Why not default to ASCII like any decent programming language does in the absence of an explicit encoding?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)