In article <nad-31678a.00033005062...@ger.gmane.org>,
Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote:
> In python 3.x, of course, the encoding happens automatically but you
> still have to tell python, via the "encoding" argument to open, what the
> encoding of the file's content is (or accept python's default which may
> not be very useful):
>
> >>> open('foo1','w').encoding
> 'mac-roman'
>
> WTF, indeed.
BTW, I've opened a 3.1 release blocker issue about 'mac-roman' as a
default on OS X. Hard to believe none of us has noticed this up to now!
http://bugs.python.org/issue6202
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