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Author	vstinner
Recipients	Windson Yang, lemburg, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2018-12-14.12:20:39
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<1544790039.44.0.788709270274.issue35348@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I agreed with Serhiy. I also found the function decode the output with latin-1, I think it will be better to use utf-8 instead. Decoding from UTF-8 can fail with UnicodeDecodeError, whereas decoding from latin-1 never fails. file output is ASCII, so I don't see the point of using UTF-8. Currently, the command displays the filename, but I don't think that we should care of the encoding of the filename. > I think that the "-b" option should be restored. That, or strip/skip the filename in the output?

> I agreed with Serhiy. I also found the function decode the output with latin-1, I think it will be better to use utf-8 instead.

Decoding from UTF-8 can fail with UnicodeDecodeError, whereas decoding from latin-1 never fails.

file output is ASCII, so I don't see the point of using UTF-8.

Currently, the command displays the filename, but I don't think that we should care of the encoding of the filename.

> I think that the "-b" option should be restored.

That, or strip/skip the filename in the output?

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Date	User	Action	Args
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