Determining encoding of a file

[Ben Finney]

Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> writes:

> In Linux it's possible for filesystems to have a different encoding
> from the system's setting. Given a filename, is there a (preferably)
> portable way to determine its encoding?

If there were, PEP 263 would not be necessary.

    <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/>

It's possible to *guess*, with no guarantee of getting the right
answer; but it's far better to be explicitly *told* what the encoding
is.

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Ben Finney