On Feb 23, 11:46 am, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Denis Kasak writes:
>
> > > > Python "assumes" ASCII and if the decodes/encoded text doesn't
> > > > fit that encoding it refuses to guess.
>
> > > Which is reasonable given that Python is programming language where it's
> > > better to have more
Joshua Judson Rosen writes:
> If you have to make an assumption, I'd really think that it'd be
> better to use whatever the host OS's default is, if the host OS has
> such a thing--using an assumption of ISO 8859-1 works only in select
> regions on unix systems, and may fail even in those select
