Prothon should not borrow Python strings!
Roger Binns
rogerb at rogerbinns.com
Tue May 25 01:32:25 EDT 2004
Greg Ewing wrote:
> What if the file you're reading is a text file?
On Windows, Linux and Mac (and most other operating systems)
it is stored as a sequence of bytes. To convert the bytes
to a sequence of characters (ie text) you have to know
what the encoding was that produced the sequence of
bytes.
This can be non-trivial, but pretending that the issue
doesn't exist leads you down the path and issues present
today in Python and several other languages.
Roger
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