Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not really safe when dealing with utf-8 files though, and IIRC > with UCS2 or UCS4 as well. The Unicode BOM its self might (I'm not sure) > qualify as ASCII.
Nope, both bytes in the BOM have the high-order bit set -- they're 0xFF and 0xFE -- so they definitely don't qualify as ASCII. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
