In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In Linux it's possible for filesystems to have a different encoding >> from the system's setting. Given a filename, is there a (preferably) >> portable way to determine its encoding? > > If there were, PEP 263 would not be necessary. > > <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/> > > It's possible to *guess*, with no guarantee of getting the right > answer; but it's far better to be explicitly *told* what the encoding > is.
That seems to be specific to the encoding used in py source files anyway. What I want to be able to do is guess the encoding of any file for loading into a text editor based on gtksourceview which is pure utf-8. The best I can do is assume it's in the system encoding with locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]. Come to think of it, I wouldn't really be any better off knowing if the filesystem has a diferent encoding anyway because it doesn't necessarily determine what's used in the contents of its files, only its filenames. And Linux at least seems to be able to translate those on the fly. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
