"I updated Python, but I can't read Japanese CSV files." When you open a file you've received and see a string of English ...

The dreaded UnicodeDecodeError exception is one of the signature "features" of Python 3. It is raised when the language encounters a byte sequence that it cannot ...

I'm against making magic "unicode" strings with unspecified encoding and then forcing everything to use these strings. The idea behind “Unicode” strings is that they are not encoded at all (so much ...