On 1/23/2010 7:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Terry Reedy<tjreedy<at> udel.edu> writes:
If the current guess is based on a mistaken assumption -- that it is
giving the user what the user asked for -- it might be reconsidered. I
personally would prefer that the default file encoding for Python 3 be
utf-8 on any machine my code runs on unless *I* or the *user*, rather
than some anonymous third party, ask otherwise. That would make files
guaranteed portable unless asked to not be.
Why do you think utf-8 is "guaranteed portable" and other encodings are not?
All encodings are portable,
Dreadfully rong. In general, the default encoding on my Windows *does
not work* on Python3 strings but causes
UnicodeEncodeError:....
If the text is not written to the file, it is completely non-portable.
> the issue at hand is to select the one which will be
expected by other tools.
If the text is not written to a file, it does not matter what the other
tool expects. Anyway, any tool that does not accept a complete unicode
encoding is not really compatible with Python3 strings.
If this was only about Python then, yes, we could
happily settle on utf-8 as a default for all systems.
OpenOffice on Windows prompts me to select an encoding to use for
decoding. utf-8 is one of the choices, so it can read any Python3 string
written out that way.
I disagree that the default behavior for a basic function should be to
not work.
Terry Jan Reedy
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