On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:58:09 -0700, [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.
I'm sure, then, you'll be happy to know that Python 3 will use similar (or maybe not similar) heuristics to determine the encoding of text files. At least that was the case last time I checked. FWIW, I'm not a big fan of heuristics, either (and this behavior would seriously irk me on Linux, where, unlike in Windows, there is an occasional need to create files containing only a small ascii string). But sometimes heuristics are necessary. There's too many non-ascii text files floating around out there for Microsoft to do nothing; they have clients in many countries they have to please. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
