Cameron Simpson wrote:
If you don't know the encoding then you don't know you're looking at a hex digit. OTOH, if the binary data contain ASCII data then you do know the encoding: it is ASCII.
Not necessarily, it could be a superset of ASCII such as latin-1 or utf-8. You do need to know that it is such an encoding, however. If the encoding is completely unknown, you can't make any assumptions. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
