[Web-SIG] WSGI configuration and character encoding.

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:35 PM 11/30/04 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>It'd be simpler to just use:
>
># encoding:windows-1252
>[server]
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>
>Which is one of several valid ways to spell an encoding declaration under 
>PEP 263, that is also a valid comment in ConfigParser .ini format.

Also note that *this*:

[wsgi]
encoding=windows-1252

Is a valid encoding prefix under PEP 263, which is why I was suggesting 
that simply embedding an encoding option could be sufficient.

However, given the reasonable use case of BOM-prefixed files, I think it 
would be best to use the PEP 263 specification instead, perhaps with the 
addition of support for 16 or 32 bit encodings so long as they are 
indicated by a BOM at the beginning of the file.