Unicode issue with Python v3.3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:50:19 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:13:46 -0700, nagia.retsina wrote:
> 
>> Since now we k ow the problem maybe we can tell metrites.py to open
>> index.html using utf-8 encoding rather as binary, dont you think?
> 
> What makes you think it is UTF-8?
> 
> Last time you tried decoding content as UTF-8, you got an error that it
> wasn't a legal UTF-8 file.

Oops, sorry, correction. It wasn't a legal UTF-8 string. It was an 
environment variable that was causing the decoding error, since it 
contained illegal bytes for a UTF-8 string.


> Where does index.html come from? Whatever program generates that, you
> need to find out what encoding it is using.


-- 
Steven