On 9/12/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If Python reports "cp1252" as I expect it to, then it has not "guessed correctly" for Brian's documents as described above. The mistake will be harmless for the ASCII files and often for the ISO8859-1 files, but would be dangerous for the UTF-8 ones.
Paul Prescod
> I can assure you
> that most of the documents that I work with are not in CP436 - they are
> a combination of ASCII, ISO8859-1, and UTF-8. I would also guess that
> this is true of many Windows XP (US-English) users. So, for me and users
> like me, Python is going to silently misinterpret my data.
No. It will use a different API to determine the system encoding, and
it will guess correctly.
If Python reports "cp1252" as I expect it to, then it has not "guessed correctly" for Brian's documents as described above. The mistake will be harmless for the ASCII files and often for the ISO8859-1 files, but would be dangerous for the UTF-8 ones.
Paul Prescod
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