bill janssen olchxynparccom imho research done area standard module added pythons stdlib knows perhaps lucky time everyone using utf8 anyway walked computational linguistics group asked often combined language guessing uses similar approach using characters instead bytes apparently usually done high confidence course theyre usually looking clean texts random stuff ill see get references report back research done 90s bill _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 150955 0700 pythondev encoding detection standard library