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| -rw-r--r-- | pygments/formatter.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pygments/formatter.py b/pygments/formatter.py index c750f0d8..41959565 100644 --- a/pygments/formatter.py +++ b/pygments/formatter.py @@ -41,14 +41,20 @@ class Formatter(object): ``encoding`` If given, must be an encoding name. This will be used to convert the Unicode token strings to byte strings in the - output (default: 'latin1'). + output. If it is "" or None, Unicode strings will be written + to the output file, which most file-like objects do not + support (default: None). """ + #: If True, this formatter outputs Unicode strings when no encoding + #: option is given. + unicodeoutput = True + def __init__(self, **options): self.style = _lookup_style(options.get('style', 'default')) self.full = get_bool_opt(options, 'full', False) self.title = options.get('title', '') - self.encoding = options.get('encoding', 'latin1') + self.encoding = options.get('encoding', None) or None self.options = options def get_style_defs(self, arg=''): |