Unicode and Zipfile problems
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Nov 7 18:06:27 EST 2003
In article <3fabef5a.3578140 at news.t-online.de>,
gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) wrote:
> Basically, what is annoying about the way python handles unicode is
> this:
>
> it forces you to be correct - even when you don't care.
You should always care.
(He says, after having to deal with automatically guessing which
encoding was used, for a file format that explicitly calls for one
particular encoding, because the d*mn users didn't care and used a
different one instead some of the time.)
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David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
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