[Python-Dev] PEP 263 - default encoding

[Fredrik Lundh]

mal wrote:

> My conclusion to all this is to withdraw the default encoding
> idea and replace it with the fixed ASCII default. This default
> won't be changeable by other means that adding an explicit
> header to the source file.

+1

(as long as the plan is to change ASCII to UTF-8 in some
yet unspecified future version)

> must use the UTF-8 coding header (and/or the BOM mark).

is "or" a good idea here?

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