On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:51 PM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > One possible solution in Python3 is to decode the byte string using an > > encoding that allows all 256 byte values, so it won't raise any encoding > > errors, just give your possibly non-sense characters for non-ASCII text. > > > But this will simply get some things quite wrong and produce garbage > won't it? Whereas Python 2 would simply scramble the odd character. >
It would. Don't do that. Either keep it as bytes, or decode it using the correct encoding. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
