Revision: 6853
Author:   cosoleto
Date:     2009-05-07 13:03:59 +0000 (Thu, 07 May 2009)

Log Message:
-----------
config: added to textfile_encoding documentation mention of 'utf-8-sig' 
(variant of UTF-8 used on Microsoft Windows with BOM) and link to list of 
available codecs supported.

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/pywikipedia/config.py

Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/config.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/pywikipedia/config.py 2009-05-07 09:54:28 UTC (rev 6852)
+++ trunk/pywikipedia/config.py 2009-05-07 13:03:59 UTC (rev 6853)
@@ -124,7 +124,10 @@
     #we get "StdioOnnaStick instance has no attribute 'encoding'"
     console_encoding = None
 
-# The encoding in which textfiles are stored, which contain lists of page 
titles.
+# The encoding in which textfiles are stored, which contain lists of page
+# titles. The most used is: 'utf-8', 'utf-8-sig' recognizes BOM but it is
+# available on Python 2.5 or higher). For a complete list please see:
+# http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings
 textfile_encoding = 'utf-8'
 
 # tkinter isn't yet ready



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