Guido van Rossum wrote: > The main problem for a smooth Unicode transition remains I/O, in my > opinion; I'd like to see a PEP describing a way to attach an encoding > to text files, and a way to decide on a default encoding for stdin, > stdout, stderr.
If stdin, stdout and stderr go to a terminal, there already is a default encoding (actually, there always is a default encoding on these, as it falls back to the system encoding if its not a terminal, or if the terminal's encoding is not supported or cannot be determined). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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