Greg Ewing wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Now I'm confused. Are we proposing that all our XML APIs read and >> write encoded bytes, or are we proposing that they read and write >> Unicode strings, leaving the encoding/decoding to the I/O stream? > > The design of XML seems a bit braindamaged here, with the > encoding specification being *inside* the XML itself, > rather than being something specified externally. It's > a bit like a self-opening letter that works by having > a letter opener sealed inside the envelope. You can > open it, but you have to open it first...
All of the popular XML parsers have self-bootstrapping code that handles detection of the encoding, including auto-detection when no encoding is specified. So basically - don't worry about it, it's taken care of. -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
