[Python-Dev] Bytes path support

[Glenn Linderman]

On 8/22/2014 8:51 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
>     What encoding does have a text file (an HTML, to be precise) with
> text in utf-8, ads in cp1251 (ad blocks were included from different
> files) and comments in koi8-r?
>     Well, I must admit the HTML was rather an exception, but having a
> text file with some strange characters (binary strings, or paragraphs
> in different encodings) is not that exceptional.
That's not a text file. That's a binary file containing (hopefully 
delimited, and documented) sections of encoded text in different encodings.

If it is named .html and served by the server as UTF-8, then the server 
is misconfigured, or the file is incorrectly populated.
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