In message <mailman.1466.1286556950.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> But they can only recognize it as a BOM if they assume UTF-8 encoding to >> begin with. Otherwise it could be interpreted as some other coding. > > Not so. The first three bytes are the flag. But this is just a text file. All parts of its contents are text, there is no “flag”. If you think otherwise, then tell us what are these three “flag” bytes for a Windows-1252-encoded text file? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
