On Tue 15 Jan 2013 10:32, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> skribis: > >> Opening a file that contains a coding declaration using an encoding other >> than binary or the coding declared in the file seems like it would be >> something of a corner case. So, IMHO it makes sense that opening a file >> using its self-declared encoding should be the simple case, and that >> opening a text file in a different (non-binary) text encoding should >> be the more complicated case, in a API sense.
I am sympathetic to this, but also to Mike's "it's a tough problem; whatever makes people happy" sentiment. > As usual, backward-compatibility gives us an incentive not to change > anything in 2.0. But perhaps we should change that in 2.2. > > Thoughts? IMO we should update the docs and leave it as it is, though I don't care much. Mark? Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
