[Python-Dev] Support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 source encodings

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 09:19:37PM +0200, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

> If the support of UTF-16 and UTF-32 is planned, I'll take this to 
> attention during refactoring. But in many places besides the tokenizer 
> the ASCII compatible encoding of source files is expected.

Perhaps another way of looking at this:

Is it feasible to drop support for arbitrary encodings and just require 
UTF-8 (with or without a pseudo-BOM)?



-- 
Steve