Re: Readlines returns non ASCII character

Subject	Re: Readlines returns non ASCII character
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From	MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Date	2015-09-24 01:09 +0100
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On 2015-09-24 00:51, paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com wrote:
>   If this starts at the beginning of the file, then it indicates that
> the file is UTF-16 (LE).
>
> UTF-8[t 1]     EF BB BF       239 187 191
> UTF-16 (BE)    FE FF          254 255
> UTF-16 (LE)    FF FE          255 254
> UTF-32 (BE)    00 00 FE FF    0 0 254 255
> UTF-32 (LE)    FF FE 00 00    255 254 0 0
>
The "signature" EF BB BF indicates the encoding called "utf-8-sig" by
Python. It occurs on Windows.

If the file doesn't start with any of these, then it could be using any
encoding (except UTF-16 or UTF-32).

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Re: Readlines returns non ASCII character MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-09-24 01:09 +0100

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