STINNER Victor <[email protected]> added the comment:
I see different cases when open() is called with no encoding argument:
(A) User wants to use UTF-8: add encoding="utf-8"
(B) Windows user wants to use the ANSI code page of their computer, local file
not intended to be shared with other computers: add encoding="mbcs". This makes
the code specific to Windows ("mbcs" alias doesn't exist on Unix).
(C) User wants to use the locale encoding and is fine with the UTF-8 Mode: add
encoding=getpreferredencoding(False)
(D) Unix user wants to use the locale encoding but not the UTF-8 Mode:
encoding=get_current_locale_encoding() (function proposed in bpo-43552) or
nl_langinfo(CODESET) (should work on any Python version). I don't know if
nl_langinfo(CODESET) is available on Windows.
(E) User has no idea of what they are doing and don't understand anything to
Unicode: please trust us and specify explicitly UTF-8 :-)
Apart the encoding="utf-8" case, I understand that they are two main complex
cases:
(1) "UTF-8" in the UTF-8 Mode, or the locale encoding
(2) Always use the locale encoding, ignore the UTF-8 Mode
What I don't expect is the current behavior, before PEP 597. Who uses open()
without specifying an encoding but always want to use the locale encoding?
(case 2) So this use case is already broken when the UTF-8 Mode is enabled
explicitly?
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