[py-dev] Problems with DOS files

[Ian Bicking]

Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> The same problem happens on Windows, because the files are being read as
> binary, maintaining the \r\n-style line endings that mess up the compiler.  

It occurs to me that there might be another bug in there, that py.path 
might not do the unicode detection that Python normally does (PEP 263; 
e.g., # -*- encoding: UTF-8 -*-).  I haven't tested it (I've never 
actually used unicode source), but I thought I'd note it since it came 
to mind.

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