"sonald" wrote: > I have added the following line in the script > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
that's good. > I have also modified the site.py that's bad, because this means that your code won't work on standard Python installations. > Now when I try to validate the data in the text file > say abc.txt (saved as with utf-8 encoding) containing either english or > russian text, what does the word "validate" mean here? > some junk character (box like) is added as the first character > what must be the reason for this? what did you do to determine that there's a box-like character at the start of the file? can you post some code? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
