In message <mailman.1149.1244167714.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> Python knows the terminal encoding (or at least can make a good guess), > but a file may use *any* encoding you want, completely unrelated to your > terminal settings. It should still respect your localization settings, though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list