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?
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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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