[Python-ideas] Python 3 open() text files: make encoding parameter optional for cross-platform scripts

[Mathias Panzenböck]

On 06/09/2013 07:25 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Mathias Panzenböck writes:
>   > On 06/08/2013 08:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>   > >
>   > > Unicode is a universal character set in the sense that it can
>   > > encode all characters,
>   >
>   > I guess Japanese people beg to differ. There are some Japanese
>   > symbols that aren't covered by Unicode,
>
> I've heard that said, but that's simply not the reality I have faced
> in my day job here in Tsukuba, Japan since 1990.  People do use Shift
> JIS still, simply because there are a large number of legacy systems
> using it.  But I've never heard complaints that Unicode lacks
> necessary characters.[1]  I have seen it go the other way around,
> though, because the JIS standard unifies some traditional variant
> glyphs that some Unicode source distinguishes, and some people prefer
> them for their names.
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  Except emoticons.  But even that has been fixed recently.
>
>

Hmm, maybe I made a mistake and read it exactly the wrong way around
when I read up on this?