On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com>wrote:
> On 12/10/13 6:50 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Now the question becomes: Why did chardet tell me it was windows-1255? :) > > It probably told you it was Windows-1252 (I'm assuming the last 5 is a > typo). > > Windows-1252 is a super-set of ISO-8859-1, so any text that is correct > ISO-8859-1 is also correct Windows-1252. In addition, it's not uncommon to > find text marked as ISO-8859-1 that in fact has characters that make it > Windows-1252. > $ chardet mpaa-ratings-reasons.list mpaa-ratings-reasons.list: windows-1255 (confidence: 0.97) I'm aware that chardet is playing guessing games, though one would hope it would guess well most of the time, and give a reasonable confidence rating.
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