Tim Lesher sagte: > Here's the first draft of the python-dev summary for the first half of April. > Please send any corrections or suggestions to > the summarizers. > [...] > ---------------------------------------- > Unicode byte order mark decoding > ---------------------------------------- > > Evan Jones saw that the UTF-16 decoder discards the byte-order mark (BOM) > from Unicode files, while the UTF-8 decoder > doesn't. Although the BOM isn't really required in UTF-8 files, many > Unicode-generating applications, especially on Microsoft > platforms, add it. > > Walter Dörwald created a patch_ to add a UTF-8-Sig codec that generates a BOM > on writing and skips it on reading, but after a > long discussion on the history of the Unicode, Microsoft's influence over its > evolution, the consensus was that BOM and signature handling belong at a > higher level (for example, a stream API) than the > codec.
All codecs provide a stream API, so there is no higher level. Bye, Walter Dörwald _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
