guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg contrary encodingguessing module often needed guessing done pretty high success rate unicode libraries eg icu contain guessing modules suppose api could return two values guessed encoding confidence indicator note locale settings might figure guess mon apr 21 2008 1028 georg brandl wrote christian heimes schrieb david wolever schrieb sort text encoding detection module standard library reason add one detect encoding unless explicitly defined header eg utf bom technically impossible best educated guess exactly light im 1 standard module weve enough issues modules implementing apparently fully specified standards georg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevguido40pythonorg guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 143649 0700 pythondev encoding detection standard library