stephen j turnbull xjzvfpwxemacsorg martin v löwis writes case im skeptical general guess encoding module would meaningful thing applied incorrectly encoded html pages depends whether get meaningful information language fact youre looking page browser context one 9944 users monolingual distinguish among encodings language context two stage process determining category encoding eg iso 8859 iso 2022 7bit iso 2022 8bit multibyte utf8 etc picking encoding category according userspecified configuration served emacsmule users well 20 years work context multiple encodings category use eg email folder polish gastarbeiter berlin nonetheless pretty useful user agents like mail clients web browsers editors _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 084731 0900 pythondev encoding detection standard library