On 9/4/06, David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I've always said (can someone find a quote perhaps?) that there ought > > to be a sensible default encoding for files (including but not limited > > to stdin/out/err), perhaps influenced by personalized settings, > > environment variables, the OS, etc. > > While it should be possible to find out what the OS believes to be > the current "system" charset (GetCPInfoEx(CP_ACP, ...) on Windows; > LC_CHARSET environment variable on Unix), that does not mean that it > is this charset that Python programs should normally use. When defining > a new text-based file type, it is simpler to define it to be always UTF-8.
In this particular case I don't care what's simpler to implement, but what's most likely to do what the user expects. If on a particular box most files are encoded in encoding X, and the user did whatever is necessary to tell the tools that that's their preferred encoding, I want Python to honor that encoding when opening text files, unless the program makes other arrangements explicitly (such as specifying an explicit encoding as a parameter to open()). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
