Re: Magic UTF-8/Windows-1252 encodings

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Johannes Bauer wrote: > On 29.08.2016 17:59, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Fair enough. If this were something that a lot of programs wanted, >> then yeah, there'd be good value in stdlibbing it. Character encodings >> ARE hard to get right, and

Re: Magic UTF-8/Windows-1252 encodings

On 29.08.2016 17:59, Chris Angelico wrote: > Fair enough. If this were something that a lot of programs wanted, > then yeah, there'd be good value in stdlibbing it. Character encodings > ARE hard to get right, and this kind of thing does warrant some help. > But I think it's best not done in core

Re: Magic UTF-8/Windows-1252 encodings

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:28 AM, Random832 wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, at 11:14, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Please don't. :) This is something that belongs in the application; >> it's somewhat hacky, and I don't see any benefit to it going into the >> language. For one

Re: Magic UTF-8/Windows-1252 encodings

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, at 11:14, Chris Angelico wrote: > Please don't. :) This is something that belongs in the application; > it's somewhat hacky, and I don't see any benefit to it going into the > language. For one thing, I could well imagine making the fallback > encoding configurable (it isn't

Re: Magic UTF-8/Windows-1252 encodings

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Random832 wrote: > Directing this to python-list because it's really not on the topic of > the idea being discussed. > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, at 05:37, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Suppose I come to python-ideas and say "Hey, the MUD

Magic UTF-8/Windows-1252 encodings

Directing this to python-list because it's really not on the topic of the idea being discussed. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, at 05:37, Chris Angelico wrote: > Suppose I come to python-ideas and say "Hey, the MUD community would > really benefit from a magic decoder that would use UTF-8 where > possible,