Victor Stinner [mailto:vstin...@python.org] wrote:
> encoding="utf8" is backward compatible and is likely to fix encoding bugs
> when the locale encoding is not UTF-8
This program runs just fine on 3.8.7 Windows, against a file.txt that contains
latin-1 text:
with open('file.txt', 'rt') as f:
print(f.read())
But if I change it to this:
with open('file.txt', 'rt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
print(f.read())
then it fails with UnicodeDecodeError. How it that backwards compatible?
regards, Anders
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