On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:52 AM, wrote:

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:57:51 -0700 From: Charles R Harris Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] using loadtxt to load a text file in to a numpy array To: Discussion of Numerical Python Message-ID: < CAB6mnxJpvJbsoZzY0Ctk1bk+kDCUDivC9KrzYt1johU33bZOLw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Chris Barker

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There was a discussion of this long ago and UCS-4 was chosen as the numpy standard. There are just too many complications that arise in supporting both.

Chuck

In that case, perhaps another function altogether is called for. DG