[issue9598] untabify.py fails on files that contain non-ascii characters
Alexander Belopolsky
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Sep 8 02:29:53 CEST 2010
Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Éric Araujo <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Why would it be the job of untabify to report invalid non-ASCII characters in C files?
>
Since untabify works by loading C code as text, it has to assume some
encoding. Failing with uncaught decode error (as it currently does
on non UTF-8 source) is not very user friendly. For example, the
diagnostic does not report the position of the offending character and
does not explain how to fix the source.
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