Re: Scanning for coding declarations in all files (not just source)

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 15 Jan 2013 10:32, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mike Gran <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Opening a file that contains a coding declaration using an encoding other
>> than binary or the coding declared in the file seems like it would be
>> something of a corner case.  So, IMHO it makes sense that opening a file
>> using its self-declared encoding should be the simple case, and that
>> opening a text file in a different (non-binary) text encoding should
>> be the more complicated case, in a API sense.

I am sympathetic to this, but also to Mike's "it's a tough problem;
whatever makes people happy" sentiment.

> As usual, backward-compatibility gives us an incentive not to change
> anything in 2.0.  But perhaps we should change that in 2.2.
>
> Thoughts?

IMO we should update the docs and leave it as it is, though I don't care
much.

Mark?

Andy
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