On 2016-03-09, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > generate the output. Without seeing the code you used, I have *no idea* how > you could get that result. If you read the file in binary, you should get > this: > > b'\xef\xbb\xbf\xe2\x82\xac\xe2\x82\xac\xe2\x82\xac' > > Or in decimal: > > 239, 187, 191, 226, 130, 172, 226, 130, 172, 226, 130, 172 > > How you are getting 8218 instead of 130, I have no idea!
Decode as "windows-1252". >> Changing it to UTF-8 however (CHCP 65001 in Windows) gives me this >> error when I run the program again: >> >> ---------- >> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams >> LookupError: unknown encoding: cp65001 cp65001 was added in Python 3.3, any earlier version (including any Python 2) will not understand it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
