PEP-0263 and default encoding

Klaus Alexander Seistrup spam at magnetic-ink.dk
Wed Oct 1 02:25:20 EDT 2003


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Just save your code as UTF-8, using the UTF-8 BOM.

Please, could you explain what you mean by "the UTF-8 BOM"?

> In neither case, relying on the system default encoding is
> necessary.

I'd still prefer Python to rely on the system default encoding.
I can't see why it's there if Python ignores it.


  // Klaus

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