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Re: source encoding
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From:
John Imrie
Date:
October 26, 2017 18:14
Subject:
Re: source encoding
Message ID:
0f512f0c-b454-af95-ab61-6011ee4a406b@virginmedia.com
On 25/10/2017 21:05, Zefram wrote:
> John Imrie wrote:
>> There is another edge case that needs to be discussed, what happens to the
>> DATA file handle. Under these conditions it should, I think, have the
>> :encoding(utf8) layer added to it by default.
> I'm dubious about what it would take to deprecate reliance on the
> current default before changing it. I also wonder about actual binary
> data sections. I think we'd have to leave the behaviour unchanged:
> the DATA handle is handed off to the user with no encoding layer.
>
> -zefram
I hadn't considered binary data; I do wander what effect having raw
binary data in a utf8 encoded file would have when trying to edit the
file due to invalid utf8 byte sequences.
For now I withdraw my request for changing the default encoding on the
DATA file handle to utf8 as that's likely to complicate things further
John
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