Nicholas Bastin sagte:
On Apr 7, 2005, at 11:35 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
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If you do have UTF-16 without a BOM mark it's much better to let a short function analyze the text by reading for first few bytes of the file and then make an educated guess based on the findings. You can then process the file using one of the other codecs UTF-16-LE or -BE.
This is about what we do now - we catch UnicodeError and then add a BOM to the file, and read it again. We know our files are UTF-16BE if they don't have a BOM, as the files are written by code which observes the spec. We can't use UTF-16BE all the time, because sometimes they're UTF-16LE, and in those cases the BOM is set.
It would be nice if you could optionally specify that the codec would assume UTF-16BE if no BOM was present, and not raise UnicodeError in that case, which would preserve the current behaviour as well as allow users' to ask for behaviour which conforms to the standard.
It should be feasible to implement your own codec for that based on Lib/encodings/utf_16.py. Simply replace the line in StreamReader.decode(): raise UnicodeError,"UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM" with: self.decode = codecs.utf_16_be_decode and you should be done.
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Bye, Walter Dörwald