So is there any way to sniff the encoding, including the BOM (which appears to be used or not used randomly for utf-8), so you can then use the proper encoding, or do you wander in the wilderness?
Pretty much guesswork. > Alan Gauld -- This all sounds suspiciously like the old browser wars I suffered while webmastering. I'd almost think Microsoft had a hand in it ;') If utf-8 can handle a million characters, why isn't it just the standard? I doubt we'd need more unless the Martians land. Since I am reading opinions that the BOM doesn't even belong in utf-8, can I assume just using utf-8-sig as my default encoding, even on a non-BOM file, would do no harm? Jim _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
