Unicode and Zipfile problems

[David Eppstein]

In article <3fabef5a.3578140 at news.t-online.de>,
 gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) wrote:

> Basically, what is annoying about the way python handles unicode is
> this:
> 
> it forces you to be correct - even when you don't care. 

You should always care.

(He says, after having to deal with automatically guessing which 
encoding was used, for a file format that explicitly calls for one 
particular encoding, because the d*mn users didn't care and used a 
different one instead some of the time.)

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science