> On 25 Oct 2022, at 11:16, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: >> You can let Python guess the encoding of a file. >> def encoding_of( name ): >> path = pathlib.Path( name ) >> for encoding in( "utf_8", "cp1252", "latin_1" ): >> try: >> with path.open( encoding=encoding, errors="strict" )as file: > > I also read a book which claimed that the tkinter.Text > widget would accept bytes and guess whether these are > encoded in UTF-8 or "ISO 8859-1" and decode them > accordingly. However, today I found that here it does > accept bytes but it always guesses "ISO 8859-1".
The best you can do is assume that if the text cannot decode as utf-8 it may be 8859-1. Barry > > main.py > > import tkinter > > text = tkinter.Text() > text.insert( tkinter.END, "AÄäÖöÜüß".encode( encoding='ISO 8859-1' )) > text.insert( tkinter.END, "AÄäÖöÜüß".encode( encoding='UTF-8' )) > text.pack() > print( text.get( "1.0", "end" )) > > output > > AÄäÖöÜüßAÃäÃöÃüà > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
