MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
On 14/02/2012 21:43, Jim Jewett wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Carl M. Johnson <cmjohnson.mailinglist@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, so concrete proposals: update the docs and maybe make a synonym for Latin-1 that makes it more semantically obvious that you're not really using it as Latin-1, just as a easy to pass through encoding. Anything else? Any bike shedding on the synonym? […]
encoding="mojibake" # :-)
+1 If people want to remain wilfully ignorant of text encoding in the third millennium of our calendar, then a name like “mojibake” is clear about what they'll get, and will perhaps be publicly embarrassing enough that some proportion of programmers will decide to reduce their ignorance and use a specific encoding instead. -- \ “Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first | `\ principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the | _o__) easiest person to fool.” —Richard P. Feynman, 1964 | Ben Finney