[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:45:03 +1300 (NZDT)
> I think I can propose a compromise though: there may be two default
> encodings, one used for Python source code, and one for data.
Seems to me there shouldn't be changeable default
encoding for source files at all. The encoding of
a source file is a property of the file itself,
not the interpreter used to read it.
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