STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > A common programming task is "I want to process this text file, > I know it's in an ASCII compatible encoding, I don't know which > one specifically, but I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts > so it doesn't matter".
Can you give more detail about this use case? Why would you ignore non-ASCII characters? ---------- nosy: +haypo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13997> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com