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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:52:42 -0500

So how about this:

In phase 1, the tokenizer checks the complete file for non-ASCII characters and outputs single warning per file if it doesn't find a coding declaration at the top. Unicode literals continue to use [raw-]unicode-escape as codec. In phase 2, we enforce ASCII as default encoding, i.e. the warning will turn into an error. The [raw-]unicode-escape codec will be extended to also support converting Unicode to Unicode, that is, only handle escape sequences in this case.

+1.

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