M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes: > > It's rather common to exchange text files between users... and > in form of XML and CSV files, these also tend to get used as > input for programs every now and then
For XML files, encoding should be taken care of by the XML layer, not the IO layer. That is, they will be read and written as binary files. For CSV files, the situation is in my experience hopeless. Even on an UTF-8 system some software will interpret them as latin-1 by default. The "solution" I've come with is to first decode them as UTF-8 and fall back on latin-1 if it fails. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
