Chris Angelico writes: > Not sure why 1251,
All of those codes have repertoires that are Cyrillic supersets, presumably Russian-language content, based on Oleg's top domain. > But it's important to note that this is a method of handling junk. > It's not a design intention; this is for a situation where I really > want to cope with any byte stream and attempt to display it as text. > And if I get something that's neither UTF-8 nor CP-1252, I will > display it wrongly, and there's nothing can be done about that. Of course there is. It just gets more heuristic the more numerous the potential encodings are. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
