>>> Antoine would like to check BOM by default, because both options >>> (system locale vs checking for BOM) is the same thing. >>> >> To be clear, I am not saying it is the same thing. What I think is >> that it would be a mistake to use a mildly unreliable heuristic by >> default (the locale + device encoding heuristic) but refuse to >> trust a more reliable heuristic (the BOM-based detection >> algorithm). >> > > I concur. On Windows both UTF-8 and signature are very common, yet > the platform default is the truly awful CP1252.
While I would support combining BOM detection in the case where a file is opened for reading and no encoding is specified, I see two problems: a) if a seek operations is performed before having looked at the BOM, no determination would have been made b) what encoding should it use on writing? 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
