In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carsten Haese wrote: > If your input string contains the byte 0xe9 where your accented e is, > the file is actually latin-1 encoded. If it contains the byte sequence > 0xc3,0xa9 it is UTF-8 encoded.
It is dismaying how often I come across Web pages that claim to be UTF-8-encoded, but are actually Latin-1 or Dimdows-1252. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list