John Machin wrote:
On Dec 6, 10:35 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:00:59 -0700, Joe Strout wrote:
So UTF-16 has an explicit EOF marker within the text?
No, it does not. I don't know what Terry's thinking of there, but text
files do not have any EOF marker. They start at the beginning
(sometimes including a byte-order mark), and go till the end of the
file, period.
Windows text files still interpret ctrl-Z as EOF, or at least Windows XP
does. Vista, who knows?
This applies only to files being read in an 8-bit text mode. It is
inherited from MS-DOS, which followed the CP/M convention, which was
necessary because CP/M's file system recorded only the physical file
length in 128-byte sectors, not the logical length. It is likely to
continue in perpetuity, just as standard railway gauge is (allegedly)
based on the axle-length of Roman chariots.
The chariots in question were drawn by 2 horses, so the gauge is based
in the width of a horse. :-)
None of this is relevant to the OP's problem; his file appears to have
been truncated rather than having spurious data appended to it.
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