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[Marco Sulla]

On Sat, 7 May 2022 at 16:08, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> You need to handle the file in bin mode and do the handling of line endings and encodings yourself. It’s not that hard for the cases you wanted.

>>> "\n".encode("utf-16")
b'\xff\xfe\n\x00'
>>> "".encode("utf-16")
b'\xff\xfe'
>>> "a\nb".encode("utf-16")
b'\xff\xfea\x00\n\x00b\x00'
>>> "\n".encode("utf-16").lstrip("".encode("utf-16"))
b'\n\x00'

Can I use the last trick to get the encoding of a LF or a CR in any encoding?