[New-bugs-announce] [issue28246] Unable to read simple text file

[AndreyTomsk]

New submission from AndreyTomsk:

File read operation fails when gets specific cyrillic symbol. Tested with script:

testFile = open('ResourceStrings.rc', 'r')
for line in testFile:
    print(line)


Exception message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "min_test.py", line 6, in <module>
    for line in testFile:
  File "C:\Users\afi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1251.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 24: character maps to <undefined>

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components: IO, Unicode, Windows
files: ResourceStrings.rc
messages: 277206
nosy: AndreyTomsk, ezio.melotti, haypo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unable to read simple text file
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44783/ResourceStrings.rc

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