[Python-Dev] Support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Sat Nov 14 17:56:43 EST 2015

These encodings are rarely used. I don't think that any text editor use them. Editors use ascii, latin1, utf8 and... all locale encoding. But I don't know any OS using UTF-16 as a locale encoding. UTF-32 wastes disk space.

Ok, even if it exists, Python already accepts a very wide range of encoding. It is not worth to make the parser much more complex just to support encodings which are also never used (for .py files).

Victor Le 14 nov. 2015 20:20, "Serhiy Storchaka" <storchaka at gmail.com> a écrit :

For now UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings are not supported. There is a comment in Parser/tokenizer.c:

/* Disable support for UTF-16 BOMs until a decision is made whether this needs to be supported. */ Can we make a decision whether this support will be added in foreseeable future (say in near 10 years), or no? Removing commented out and related code will help to refactor the tokenizer, and that can help to fix some existing bugs (e.g. issue14811, issue18961, issue20115 and may be others). Current tokenizing code is too tangled. If the support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 is planned, I'll take this to attention during refactoring. But in many places besides the tokenizer the ASCII compatible encoding of source files is expected.

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