From: Emmanuel Arias Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:02:00 -0300 Subject: Fix encoding default Use sys module to get default file encoding From: https://github.com/PyCQA/docformatter/commit/1b3f03d334d9c1322ccaa02b655aedadc150d9d3 --- src/docformatter/encode.py | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/docformatter/encode.py b/src/docformatter/encode.py index 30e1042..e99ccab 100644 --- a/src/docformatter/encode.py +++ b/src/docformatter/encode.py @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class Encoder: CRLF = "\r\n" # Default encoding to use if the file encoding cannot be detected - DEFAULT_ENCODING = "latin-1" + DEFAULT_ENCODING = sys.getdefaultencoding() def __init__(self): """Initialize an Encoder instance.""" @@ -60,9 +60,15 @@ class Encoder: """ try: detection_result = from_path(filename).best() - self.encoding = ( - detection_result.encoding if detection_result else self.DEFAULT_ENCODING - ) + if detection_result and detection_result.encoding in ["utf_16", "utf_32"]: + # Treat undetectable/binary encodings as failure + self.encoding = self.DEFAULT_ENCODING + else: + self.encoding = ( + detection_result.encoding + if detection_result + else self.DEFAULT_ENCODING + ) # Check for correctness of encoding. with self.do_open_with_encoding(filename) as check_file: