On 10 January 2014 12:19, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Just a word of caution: > > Using the 'latin-1' to mean unknown encoding can easily result > in Mojibake (unreadable text) entering your application with > dangerous effects on your other text data.
Agreed. The latin-1 suggestion is purely for people who object to learning how to handle the encodings in their data more accurately. That's not a criticism, wanting to avoid getting sidetracked into understanding encodings when porting a personal script is a classic "practicality vs purity" situation. Current responses to people with encoding issues tend towards an idealistic "you should understand your data better" position, which while true in the abstract is not always what the requester wants to hear. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
