Martin Panter added the comment: If you adjusted the detect_encoding() logic according to Pete Cordell’s table at the bottom of <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/json/current/msg01959.html>, it might work for standalone strings.
However since the RFC encourages UTF-8 for best interoperability, I wonder if any of this autodetection is necessary. It might be simpler to just assume UTF-8, or use the “utf-8-sig” codec. Or are there real cases where detecting UTF-16 or -32 would be useful? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17909> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com