In message <mailman.1533.1286774527.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <mailman.1466.1286556950.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan >> Furman wrote: >> >>>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>>But they can only recognize it as a BOM if they assume UTF-8 encoding to >>>>begin with. Otherwise it could be interpreted as some other coding. >>> >>>Not so. The first three bytes are the flag. >> >> But this is just a text file. All parts of its contents are text, there >> is no “flag”. >> >> If you think otherwise, then tell us what are these three “flag” bytes >> for a Windows-1252-encoded text file? > > MS treats those first three bytes as a flag -- if they equal the BOM, MS > treats it as UTF-8, if they equal anything else, MS does not treat it as > UTF-8. So what does it treat it as? You previously gave examples of flag values for dBase III. What are the flag values for Windows-1252, versus, say, ISO-8859-15? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
