In message <mailman.1544.1286800257.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <mailman.1533.1286774527.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan >> Furman wrote: >> >>>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>>In message <mailman.1466.1286556950.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan >>>>Furman wrote: >>>> >>>MS treats those first three bytes as a flag -- if they equal the BOM, MS >>>treats it as UTF-8, if they equal anything else, MS does not treat it as >>>UTF-8. >> >> So what does it treat it as? You previously gave examples of flag values >> for dBase III. What are the flag values for Windows-1252, versus, say, >> ISO-8859-15? > > I am not aware of any other flag values for text files besides the BOM > for UTF-8. Then how can you say “MS treats those first three bytes as a flag”, then? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
