On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, at 05:06, Inada Naoki wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:43 PM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 20:34, Inada Naoki wrote: > > > * Default encoding is "utf-8". > > > > it might be worthwhile to be a little more sophisticated than this. > > > > Notepad itself uses character set detection [it might not be reasonable to > > do this on the whole file as notepad does, but maybe the first 512 bytes, > > or the result of read1(512)?] when opening a file of unknown encoding, and > > msvcrt's "ccs=UTF-8" option to fopen will at least detect at the presence > > of UTF-8 and UTF-16 BOMs [and treat the file as UTF-16 in the latter case]. > > I meant Notepad (and VS code) use UTF-8 without BOM when creating new text > file. > Students learning Python can not read it with `open()`.
Right, I was simply suggesting it might be worthwhile to target "be able to open all files that notepad can open" as the goal rather than simply defaulting to UTF8-no-BOM only, which requires a little more sophistication than just a default encoding. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/VJ67ZCY7HG6JTWM4K2JDZDQAJIXEMF4T/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
