Request for py program to insert space between two characters and saved as text?
r0g
aioe.org at technicalbloke.com
Wed Dec 9 11:32:23 EST 2009
Dave Angel wrote:
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> r0g wrote:
>> Dave Angel wrote:
>>
>>> r0g wrote:
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>>>> Dave Angel wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>> r0g wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:26:58 +0530, 74yrs old
>>>>>>> <withblessings at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For Kannada project .txt(not .doc) is used, my requirement is to
>>>>>>>> have one
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> <big snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's even worse. As far as I can tell, the code will never do what he
>>> wants in Python 2.x. The Kannada text file is full of Unicode
>>> characters in some encoding, and if you ignore the encoding, you'll just
>>> get garbage.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ah, fair enough. In my defence though I never saw the original post or
>> this kannada.txt file as my newsserver is not so much with the
>> reliability. I guess it's naive to assume an english .txt file is going
>> to be in ASCII these days eh?
>>
>> I've yet to try python 3 yet either, this whole Unicode thing looks like
>> it could be a total nightmare! :(
>>
>> Roger.
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>>
> But it isn't an english .txt file, it's a Kannada .txt file.
> Presumably you didn't realize that Kannada is a (non-English) language,
> spoken in parts of India, with several hundred characters. ASCII wasn't
> even an option. Anyway, no harm done, someone else referred the OP to a
> Python user-group local to that region.
>
> DaveA
>
Well this looked like English to me...
example: *F o r K a n n a d a p r o j e c t . t x t(n o t .d o c) i s
u s e d, m y r e q u i r e m e n t i s t o h a v e o n e s p a
c e b e t w e e n t w o c h a r a c t e r s i n t h e t e x t.*
...but yes you're right, I had never heard of Kannada let alone knew it
was another language!
Roger.
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