Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
> > f = textfile(filename, mode="r", encoding=None)
>
> Enthusiastic +1.
>
> But I think that encoding should default to "ASCII". We also need to
> discuss under what circumstances textfile("foo").read() returns Unicode
> string versus 8-bit string.
My suggestion would be "always", while I'm fine with the default
encoding as "ascii".
"Universal" newline support then means that additional newline markers
should be recognized:
U+0080 NEXT LINE (NEL)
U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR
If possible, Unicode TR 13 (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr13/)
should be followed as much as possible.
Regards,
Martin
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