On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:42:05 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Unfortunately -- in the current era, "text" means "a defined encoding",
Text has ALWAYS meant "a defined encoding". It is just that for a long time, people could get away with assuming that the encoding they used was the *only* possible encoding, and using it implicitly without even thinking about it. That One True Encoding is, of course, EBCDIC. No, I kid, of course it is Mac-Roman. Ha ha, no, just pulling your leg... of course it's ISO 8859-1 (not to be confused with ISO-8859-1, yes the hyphen is significant). Except for web browsers, which are required to interpret declarations of ISO 8859-1 as CP-1252 instead. Actually, I'm still kidding around. Everyone knows the One True Encoding is ISCII. (That's not a typo.) -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
