"J Kenneth King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> It probably means what it says: that the input file contains characters > it cannot read using the specified encoding. That was my first thought. However it appears that there is an off by one error somewhere in the intersection of line ending/codec processing. Half way through the codec starts byte-flipping characters. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list