[issue7651] Python3: guess text file charset using the BOM

[Walter Dörwald]

Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> added the comment:

IMHO this is the wrong approach.

As Martin v. Löwis suggested here http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-January/094841.html the best solution would be a new codec (which he named sniff), that autodetects the encoding on reading. This doesn't require *any* changes to the IO library. It could even be developed as a standalone project and published in the Cheeseshop.

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