On Sep 16, 8:59?pm, "J. Cliff Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The very presence of an algorithm to detect encoding is a bug. > > Files with they .txt extension should always be treated as ANSI > > even if they contain binary data. Notepad should never be > > allowed to try to decide what the encoding is if the the open > > dialog has the encoding set to ANSI. > > Mmmmm, yeah.... I'm going to have to go ahead and, uh, disagree with > you there. > > If I open a text file in WordPad, and then do a save as, I get the > following choices, all specifying an extension of .txt > > Text Document > Text Document - MS-DOS Format > Unicode Document > > If Microsoft offers to create documents in three different formats with > the same extension, it damn well better make some effort to figure out > which one it's trying to open when it reopens those same documents.
No, it should NOT. Unless it can do it with absolute 100% guarantee that it can get it right. Since it cannot, it should be left to the user to specify the encoding. > > Cheers, > Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
