On Fri, 18 May 2018 22:53:06 +0100, bartc wrote: > I've worked with text files for 40 years. Now Python is telling me I've > been doing it wrong all that time!
Welcome to the 20th Century! We interchange text and data with people from all over the world now, and one or two of them use characters that aren't ASCII! Start here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ or https://tinyurl.com/h8yg9d7 Then follow up with: https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
