Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> 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.
You are addressing a completely different issue. I am saying that Python is going to silently misinterpret my *data* and you are saying that it is going to correctly determine the *system encoding*. As a user, I don't directly care if Python guesses my system encoding correctly or not, but I do care if it tries to interpret my UTF-8 documents as Windows-1252 (which will succeed) and I end up transmitting/storing/displaying incorrect data. Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
