Cameron Simpson writes: > I thought I'd seen [UTF-16 BOM] on Windows text files within the > last year or so (I don't use Windows often, so this is happenstance > from receiving some data, not an observation of the Windows > ecosystem; my recollection is that it was a UTF16 CSV file.)
OK; my experience is limited. > But BOMs may be commonplace. This isn't a text file example, I don't care at all about BOMs in specialized protocols in this thread. This thread is about 'open'. > I do not consider the BOM dead, and it is so cheap to recognise > that not bothering to do so seems almost mean sprited. Not if you view it from the point of view of cognitive burden on casual coders. See my reply to Guido. _______________________________________________ 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/GOYUG5WDUQDQTKUZN6V4EDFH6U23656R/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
