On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:14 PM Anders Munch <a...@flonidan.dk> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
There are several ways:
* encoding="latin1" -- This is the best. Works perfectly.
* Don't touch -- You don't need to enable EncodingWarning.
* encoding=locale.getpreferredencoding(False) -- Backward compatible.
But doesn't work if you enabled UTF-8 mode.
* encoding="mbcs" -- Backward compatible. Works even when you enabled
UTF-8 mode. But it doesn't work only on Windows.
Regards,
--
Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com>
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