Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
Oops, that code was supposed to read:
import codecs
def search_function(name):
if name == "myutf8":
utf8 = codecs.lookup("utf-8")
utf8_sig = codecs.lookup("utf-8-sig")
return codecs.CodecInfo(
name='my
Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
If you want to use UTF-8-sig for decoding and UTF-8 for encoding and
have this available as one codec you can define your owen codec for this:
import codecs
def search_function(name):
if name == "myutf8":
utf8 = codecs.lookup("ut
James G. sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
> Can you post an example that requires this code?
This is not a big issue, and it wouldn't hurt if it got declared "go away
and come back later if you have patch, test, docs, and a convincing use
case".
..But, for the record..
Supp
Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I don't see exactly what James is proposing.
> For my needs, I would like the decoding parts of the utf_8 module
> to treat an initial BOM as an optional signature and skip it if
> there is one (just like the utf_8_sig decoder). In fact I hav
Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
It sounds like the Unicode FAQ has an authoritative statement on this,
is this a "wontfix", or does this need more discussion? Perhaps on
python-dev or at the sprints this week?
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assignee: -> doerwalter
nosy: +jafo
priority:
