[Python-3000] Draft PEP: Using UTF-8 as the default source encoding

[Georg Brandl]

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:
> I'd like to submit the following PEP for Python 3.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> PEP: xxx
> Title: Using UTF-8 as the default source encoding
> Version: $Revision $
> Last-Modified: $Date $
> Author: Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de>
> Status: Draft
> Type: Standards Track
> Content-Type: text/x-rst
> Created: 15-Apr-2007
> Python-Version: 3.0
> Post-History:
> 
> 
> Specification
> =============
> 
> This PEP proposes to change the default source encoding from ASCII to
> UTF-8. Support for alternative source encodings [#pep263]_ continues to
> exist; an explicit encoding declaration takes precedence over the
> default.

+1 in general. Do you want to add a sentence or two about the infamous
UTF-8 "BOM"?


Georg


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