On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> > latin1? I thought latin1 had a code point for 0-255, so how could using > it > > raise an encoding error? > > Latin-1 / ISO-8859-1 defines a character for every byte, so any byte > string will *decode*. It only defines 256 characters as having > equivalent bytes, though, so *encoding* can fail. > unless it was decoded as latin-1 in the first place. doesn't the surrogate escape thing only work properly if you decode/encode with the same encoding? -CHB Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected]
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