Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In Linux it's possible for filesystems to have a different encoding > from the system's setting. Given a filename, is there a (preferably) > portable way to determine its encoding?
If there were, PEP 263 would not be necessary. <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/> It's possible to *guess*, with no guarantee of getting the right answer; but it's far better to be explicitly *told* what the encoding is. -- \ "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we | `\ despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list