On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:43 PM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 20:34, Inada Naoki wrote: > > * Default encoding is "utf-8". > > it might be worthwhile to be a little more sophisticated than this. > > Notepad itself uses character set detection [it might not be reasonable to do > this on the whole file as notepad does, but maybe the first 512 bytes, or the > result of read1(512)?] when opening a file of unknown encoding, and msvcrt's > "ccs=UTF-8" option to fopen will at least detect at the presence of UTF-8 and > UTF-16 BOMs [and treat the file as UTF-16 in the latter case].
I meant Notepad (and VS code) use UTF-8 without BOM when creating new text file. Students learning Python can not read it with `open()`. -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5WYWXLCHL6MORJDU4V7JFRI2XD7E3G5Z/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
