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Author	vstinner
Recipients	Claudiu.Popa, berker.peksag, rhettinger, tshepang, vstinner
Date	2014-05-14.22:40:28
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Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1400107228.32.0.826643627195.issue21027@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The HTML output contains an encoding in the <head>: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> The problem is that sys.stdout may use a different encoding. For example, my locale encoding is UTF-8. So "python -m difflib -um a.py b.py > test.html" produces an HTML file encoded in UTF-8 but announcing a ISO 8859-1 header. There are different options to fix this issue: * drop the --html command line option * drop the invalid Content-Type header * add an option to write the diff into a file, use UTF-8 to encode this file and emit a correct HTTP header (announce UTF-8)

The HTML output contains an encoding in the <head>:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

The problem is that sys.stdout may use a different encoding. For example, my locale encoding is UTF-8. So "python -m difflib -um a.py b.py > test.html" produces an HTML file encoded in UTF-8 but announcing a ISO 8859-1 header. There are different options to fix this issue:

* drop the --html command line option
* drop the invalid Content-Type header
* add an option to write the diff into a file, use UTF-8 to encode this file and emit a correct HTTP header (announce UTF-8)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-05-14 22:40:28	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, rhettinger, Claudiu.Popa, tshepang, berker.peksag
2014-05-14 22:40:28	vstinner	set	messageid: <1400107228.32.0.826643627195.issue21027@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-05-14 22:40:28	vstinner	link	issue21027 messages
2014-05-14 22:40:28	vstinner	create