[Python-Dev] Bytes path support (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Aug 23 10:20:40 CEST 2014

Chris Angelico writes:

Not sure why 1251,

All of those codes have repertoires that are Cyrillic supersets, presumably Russian-language content, based on Oleg's top domain.

But it's important to note that this is a method of handling junk. It's not a design intention; this is for a situation where I really want to cope with any byte stream and attempt to display it as text. And if I get something that's neither UTF-8 nor CP-1252, I will display it wrongly, and there's nothing can be done about that.

Of course there is. It just gets more heuristic the more numerous the potential encodings are.

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