On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 05:09, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > > > > > 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. >
Except when it's Windows-1252. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
