[Python-Dev] Quick sum up about open() + BOM

[Michael Foord]

On 09/01/2010 00:09, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Hello Victor,
>
> Victor Stinner<victor.stinner<at>  haypocalc.com>  writes:
>    
>> (1) Change default open() behaviour or make it optional?
>>
>>      
> [...]
>    
>> Antoine would like to check BOM by default, because both options (system
>> locale vs checking for BOM) is the same thing.
>>      
> To be clear, I am not saying it is the same thing. What I think is that it would
> be a mistake to use a mildly unreliable heuristic by default (the locale +
> device encoding heuristic) but refuse to trust a more reliable heuristic (the
> BOM-based detection algorithm).
>    

I concur. On Windows both UTF-8 and signature are very common, yet the 
platform default is the truly awful CP1252.

All the best,

Michael
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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