On 1/31/2014 8:52 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
H:\HP_Documents\0PythonWork\AirplaneKinematics\accel2.py
caused this message
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 14:
invalid start byte
So... something's interpreting \0 as codepoint U+0000 (which it
shouldn't), storing that in "UTF-8" as 0xC0 0x80 (which it shouldn't),
and then giving it to Python to decode.
Right. Which is why it puzzled me. Credit Serhiy for unraveling this and
fixing it.
> That's a weird little combination bug right there.
Which started with Microsoft's decision to reuse the string excape
character '\' as a directory separator.
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