Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>: > On 06/05/2014 11:30 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> A fundamental text file is such that ordinary operating system >> facilities can't see inside the black box (that is, they are *not* >> encoded as far as the applications go). > > Of course they are.
How would you know? > It may be an ASCII-encoding of some flavor or other, or something > really (to me) strange -- but an encoding is most assuredly in affect. Outside metaphysics, that statement is only meaningful if you have access to the encoding. > ASCII is *not* the state of "this string has no encoding" -- that > would be Unicode; a Unicode string, as a data type, has no encoding. Huh? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list