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Re: Processing text data with different encodings

From Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Processing text data with different encodings
Date 2016-06-28 11:01 -0400
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016, at 10:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>     "you will find THREE OR FOUR different encodings in one email. 
>     I think at the sending side they just glue different text 
>     fragments from different sources together without thinking 
>     about the encoding"
> 
> But I'm not going to argue any more. Maybe I've misunderstood you

Well, given that the other encodings he named were us-ascii and latin-1,
I think he was just counting windows-1252 as three different encodings
depending on what characters are present, as hyperbole.

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Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 09:25 +0200
  Re: Processing text data with different encodings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 17:46 +1000
    Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 10:35 +0200
      Re: Processing text data with different encodings Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-28 20:29 +1000
        Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 12:37 +0200
          Re: Processing text data with different encodings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 21:09 +1000
  Re: Processing text data with different encodings Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-06-28 10:30 +0200
    Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 12:17 +0200
      Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 12:44 +0200
      Re: Processing text data with different encodings Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-28 21:26 +1000
        Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 14:30 +0200
          Re: Processing text data with different encodings Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-29 00:52 +1000
            Re: Processing text data with different encodings Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-28 11:01 -0400
            Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 17:52 +0200
              Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-29 06:45 +0200
          Re: Processing text data with different encodings Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-29 01:11 +1000
      Re: Processing text data with different encodings Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-06-28 13:31 +0200
        Re: Processing text data with different encodings Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2016-06-28 15:16 +0200
  Re: Processing text data with different encodings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 20:25 +1000
  Re: Processing text data with different encodings Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-28 11:52 -0400
  Re: Processing text data with different encodings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-29 04:03 +1000

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