[Docutils-develop] [docutils:patches] #194 Deprecate PEP 263 coding slugs support

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

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** [patches:#194] Deprecate PEP 263 coding slugs support**

**Status:** open
**Group:** None
**Created:** Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:48 PM UTC by Adam  Turner
**Last Updated:** Fri Jul 15, 2022 12:52 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
**Attachments:**

- [0001-Deprecate-PEP-263-coding-slugs.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/194/attachment/0001-Deprecate-PEP-263-coding-slugs.patch) (5.5 kB; application/octet-stream)


Python 3 uses utf-8 as the encoding for Python source files, there is no longer a compelling use-case for the support, which adds complexity to the IO implementation.

I propose deprecating support for removal in 1.0, but 2.0 might be a better option.

Support was added in [r4506].

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