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Author vstinner
Recipients cvrebert, docs@python, eli.bendersky, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, ncoghlan, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2012-02-12.08:58:46
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Message-id <1329037127.54.0.928948885614.issue13997@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> A common programming task is "I want to process this text file,
> I know it's in an ASCII compatible encoding, I don't know which
> one specifically, but I'm only manipulating the ASCII parts
> so it doesn't matter".

Can you give more detail about this use case? Why would you ignore non-ASCII characters?
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2012-02-12 08:58:47vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, ncoghlan, pitrou, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, eli.bendersky, cvrebert, docs@python
2012-02-12 08:58:47vstinnersetmessageid: <1329037127.54.0.928948885614.issue13997@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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