Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Otten
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Chris Rebert wrote: >>> 3. The docs mention encodings.utf_8_sig, available since 2.5, but I >>> can't locate that thing there either. What's going on here? >> >> Works for me™: >> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 12 2011, 13:35:00) >> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on d

Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM

2011-05-02 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Chris Rebert wrote: >> 3. The docs mention encodings.utf_8_sig, available since 2.5, but I can't >> locate that thing there either. What's going on here? > > Works for me™: > Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 12 2011, 13:35:00) > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright"

Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM

2011-05-02 Thread John Machin
On Monday, 2 May 2011 19:47:45 UTC+10, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt > wrote: > The correct name, as you found below and as is corroborated by the > webpage, seems to be "utf_8_sig": > >>> u"FOøbar".encode('utf_8_sig') > '\xef\xbb\xbfFO\xc3\xb8bar' To com

Re: codec for UTF-8 with BOM

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I want to write a file starting with the BOM and using UTF-8, and stumbled > across some problems: > > 1. I would have expected one of the codecs to be 'UTF-8 with BOM' or > something like that, but I can't find the correct name. Als

codec for UTF-8 with BOM

2011-05-02 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Hi! I want to write a file starting with the BOM and using UTF-8, and stumbled across some problems: 1. I would have expected one of the codecs to be 'UTF-8 with BOM' or something like that, but I can't find the correct name. Also, I can't find a way to get a list of the supported codecs at al