> Using any guessing based on the locale (which describes the codec used > byt the user's console, but is completely uncorrelated to any particular > file on the user's filesystem)
No, it's not just the encoding of the console. It is also the encoding that text editors will use, in absence of a more specific direction. > Any guessing at all should have to enabled by the application: the > library doesn't have enough information to make a non[-data-mangling > guess in some of those cases. Opening a file is one of those places > where people need to think about the bytes vs. text problem: we can't > make that go away by playing whack-a-mole with the edge cases. Many developers are completely unable to make that choice, as Python 2 has demonstrated. 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
