Paul Moore wrote: > Hmm, I just checked and on Windows, it > appears that sys.getdefaultencoding() is UTF-8. That seems odd - I > would have thought the majority of Windows systems were NOT set to use > UTF-8 by default...
In Python 3, sys.getdefaultencoding() is "utf-8" on all platforms, just as it was "ascii" in 2.x, on all platforms. The default encoding isn't used for I/O; check f.encoding to find out what encoding is used to read the file you are reading. 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
