On 01/09/2014 02:54 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On 9 January 2014 22:08, Ethan Furman wrote: >> >> For example: b'\x01\x00\xd1\x80\xd1\83\xd0\x80' >> >> If that were decoded using latin1 how would I then get the first two bytes >> to the integer 256 and the last six bytes to their Cyrillic meaning? >> (Apologies for not testing myself, short on time.) > > I cannot conceive why you would. Sorry, I was too short with my example. My use case is binary files, with ASCII metadata and binary metadata, as well as ASCII-encoded numeric values, binary-coded numeric values, ASCII-encoded boolean values, and who-knows-what-(before checking the in-band metadata)-encoded text. I have to process all of it, and before we say "It's just a documentation issue" I want to make sure it /is/ just a documentation issue. -- ~Ethan~
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