On 09/03/2016 15:06, Jon Ribbens wrote: > 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.
It's also somewhat flaky in other ways https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-December/700351.html TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
