(I apologize if my summaries distort what Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> explained.)
He said that some people use the default None when they really want either UTF-8 or ASCII. My concern is that the warning will be a false alarm if they really do need whatever locale returns, and that case may still be common. (If web browsers had stopped bothering to sniff for other charsets, then maybe that situation really was getting rare.) I asked when encoding=None is actually different from encoding=locale, currently spelled encoding=locale.getpreferredencoding(False) They can be different on Windows console, presumably because the environment settings that control locale may differ from the charset actually used by the console. Even then, it only differs for open() when PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSSTDIO is set, and for TextIOWrapper() When the file is not _WindowsConsoleIO To me, that sounds narrow enough to be a windows issue, rather than an issue with open. Is there some way to write an encoding that sniffs for charsets, particularly on windows, and to use that as the default instead of assuming that locale will be correct? -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/SSALFO3RTPX7QZ7B2MOWTZKYCJ5XKWK4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
