On 19 Feb, 2008, at 19:33, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Well, we're basically hoping that the folks who actually uses Python to read and write text files containing non-ASCII characters on OSX tell us what they want. At least that's where I am. Since I personally still live in a nearly-ASCII world (and probably always will), my own experience just doesn't give me any guidance as to what would be the most useful.
I'd prefer UTF-8 because that's a much more standard format in the wider world.
How does Apple's TextEdit do the guessing (assuming it guesses at all)?
TextEdit by default saves as UTF-8 on 10.5 (at encoding set to "automatic" in the preferences).
Ronald
I just typed a few non-ASCII characters into a text file with TextEdit on OSX 10.5, and it seems to have written the file in MacRoman. This with the preferences for open and save set to automatic. --GuidoOn Feb 18, 2008 4:32 PM, Kumar McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello. In Python 3, when opening a file without declaring the encoding keyword is Python going to guess the encoding of the file or just use the default? That is, assume the file is UTF-8?What led me to wonder this is that on Mac OS X 10.4.11, opening a filecontaining UTF-8 encoded text creates a unicode object under the assumption the text was "mac roman" encoding. This seems like a bug. It works if I set the encoding to UTF-8 explicitly. I can post the code but it sounds like there are some Mac encoding issues in flux so I thought to ask first. thanks, Kumar _______________________________________________ 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/guido%40python.org-- --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/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com
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