On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > On 2018-05-23 07:38:27 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: >> >> The best you can do is to go ask the canonical source of the >> >> file what encoding the file is _supposed_ to be in. >> > >> > I disagree on both counts. >> > >> > 1) For any given file it is almost always possible to find the correct >> > encoding (or *a* correct encoding, as there may be more than one). >> >> You can find an encoding which is capable of decoding a file. That's >> not the same thing. > > If the result is correct, it is the same thing. > > If I have an input file > > 4c 69 65 62 65 20 47 72 fc df 65 0a > > and I decode it correctly to > > Liebe Grüße > > it doesn't matter whether I used ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2. The mapping > for all bytes in the input file is the same in both encodings.
Sure, but if you try it as ISO-8859-5 or -7, you won't get an error, but you also won't get that string. So it DOES matter. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
