[Python-Dev] PEP 263 - default encoding

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "mal" == mal  <M.-A.> writes:
> 
>     mal> I have reworded the phase 1 implementation as follows:
> 
>     mal>     1. Implement the magic comment detection, but only apply
>     mal> the detected encoding to Unicode literals in the source file.
> 
> a. Does this really make sense for UTF-16? 

UTF-16 is not allowed as source code encoding; see the PEP
for details.

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