On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:11:01 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 12/02/2012 08:26, Matej Cepl wrote: >> On 12.2.2012 09:14, Matej Cepl wrote: >>>> Obvious answers: >>>> >>>> - Try decoding with UTF8 or Latin1. Even if you don't get the right >>>> characters, you'll get *something*. >>>> >>>> - Use open(filename, encoding='ascii', errors='surrogateescape') >>>> >>>> (Or possibly errors='ignore'.) >>> >>> These are not good answer, IMHO. The only answer I can think of, >>> really, >>> is: >> >> Slightly less flameish answer to the question “What should I do, >> really?” is a tough one: all these suggested answers are bad because >> they don’t deal with the fact, that your input data are obviously >> broken. The rest is just pure GIGO … without fixing (and I mean, >> really, >> fixing, not ignoring the problem, which is what the previous answers >> suggest) your input, you’ll get garbage on output. And you should be >> thankful to py3k that it shown the issue to you. >> >> BTW, can you display the following line? >> >> Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy. >> >> Best, >> >> Matěj > > Yes in Thunderbird, Notepad, Wordpad and Notepad++ on Windows Vista, > can't be bothered to try any other apps.
Pan seems to be fine , they at least look like letters not just blocks -- Appearances often are deceiving. -- Aesop -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list