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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/src/unicode.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/src/unicode.txt b/docs/src/unicode.txt index 53ff8494..8184e2b2 100644 --- a/docs/src/unicode.txt +++ b/docs/src/unicode.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ If you pass a lexer a string object (not unicode), it tries to decode the data using this encoding. You can override the encoding using the `encoding` lexer option. If you have the `chardet`_ library installed and set the encoding to ``chardet`` if will ananlyse -the text and fetch the best encoding automatically: +the text and use the encoding it thinks is the right one automatically: .. sourcecode:: python @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ source and the output stream does not accept Unicode written to it!** This is the case for all regular files and for terminals. Note: The Terminal formatter tries to be smart: if its output stream has an -`encoding` attribute, it will encode any Unicode string with this encoding +`encoding` attribute, and you haven't set the option, +it will encode any Unicode string with this encoding before writing it. This is the case for `sys.stdout`, for example. The other formatters don't have that behavior. |