On 2015-09-24 00:51, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote:
If this starts at the beginning of the file, then it indicates that
the file is UTF-16 (LE).
UTF-8[t 1] EF BB BF 239 187 191
UTF-16 (BE) FE FF 254 255
UTF-16 (LE) FF FE 255 254
UTF-32 (BE) 00 00 FE FF 0 0 254 255
UTF-32 (LE) FF FE 00 00 255 254 0 0
The "signature" EF BB BF indicates the encoding called "utf-8-sig" by
Python. It occurs on Windows.
If the file doesn't start with any of these, then it could be using any
encoding (except UTF-16 or UTF-32).
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