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| References | <52d74063$0$29970$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> |
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| Date | 2014-01-16 16:01 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.5568.1389848524.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote: > if sig.startswith((b'\xFE\xFF', b'\xFF\xFE')): > return 'utf_16' > elif sig.startswith((b'\x00\x00\xFE\xFF', b'\xFF\xFE\x00\x00')): > return 'utf_32' I'd swap the order of these two checks. If the file starts FF FE 00 00, your code will guess that it's UTF-16 and begins with a U+0000. ChrisA
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Guessing the encoding from a BOM Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-16 02:13 +0000
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-16 14:47 +1100
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-16 06:55 +0000
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-15 23:29 -0800
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-16 16:01 +1100
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-16 06:45 +0000
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-01-15 21:40 -0800
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Björn Lindqvist <bjourne@gmail.com> - 2014-01-16 19:01 +0100
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 05:06 +1100
Re: Guessing the encoding from a BOM Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-01-16 12:50 -0600
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