[Python-3000] content-based detection

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> I doubt many people have to discriminate between UTF-16LE, UCS-4 and
> UTF-8. Are there real cases like that for text files?

Not sure what "that" is, in this question. There are certainly UTF-8
files. There are also UTF-16 files; they typically are LE, and often
have a BOM. I've never seen an UCS-4 file "in the wild" (except for
testing, of course).

Regards,
Martin