On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I believe in this context the OP means ASCII. ASCII became an ANSI > recognized standard many years ago
In Windows, ANSI refers to the locale-dependent 8-bit codepage. But there is no ANSI standard for Windows1252. It's a common misnomer in the OS dialog boxes and controls. Another MS misnomer is labeling UTF-16 as 'Unicode'. @leon zaat Process your text with Unicode. Open the file using codecs.open set to your platform's preferred encoding, e.g. 'cp1252' for Western, 'cp1251' for Cyrilic, or locale.getpreferredencoding() in general. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
