Python 3.0 automatic decoding of UTF16

[Richard Brodie]

"J Kenneth King" <james at agentultra.com> wrote in message 
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> It probably means what it says: that the input file contains characters
> it cannot read using the specified encoding.

That was my first thought. However it appears that there is an off by one
error somewhere in the intersection of line ending/codec processing.
Half way through the codec starts byte-flipping characters.