> I have decided to keep the test for a decode error because files created > under > different locales should not be written-to under the current one. I don't > know if one can mix encodings in a single text file, but I don't have time to > find out.
Of course it's *possible*. However, you need to have a detailed format specification to make it feasible. For example, in a font file, you could specify that the font name is in UTF-8, the vendor name is in Latin-1, and the description is in UTF-16, but it would be really stupid to specify such a format (not that this would stop people from specifying such formats - in ZIP files, some file names are encoded in CP437 and some in UTF-8, depending on a per-filename flag). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
