[Python-Dev] Internationalization Toolkit

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:57:15 -0500 (EST)


M.-A. Lemburg writes:
 > Access to this mark will go into sys: sys.bom.

  Can the name in sys be a little more descriptive?
sys.byte_order_mark would be reasonable.
  I think that a support module (possibly unicodec) should provide
constants for all four byte order marks as strings (2- & 4-byte,
little- and big-endian).  Names could be short BOM_2_LE, BOM_4_LE,
etc.


  -Fred

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