[Python-ideas] Python 3 open() text files: make encoding parameter optional for cross-platform scripts

[Mathias Panzenböck]

On 06/08/2013 08:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> Unicode is a
> universal character set in the sense that it can encode all
> characters,

I guess Japanese people beg to differ. There are some Japanese symbols that aren't covered by Unicode,
or at least not to the extend Japanese people would like it to be. Which is why they use (Shift-)JIS a
lot of the time. Basically Shift-JIS <-> Unicode is not round trip safe.