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Originally Posted by KevinH
Then the issue must be in the plugin someplace. Sigil autodetects the encoding and converts it to utf-8. The plugin should read the input file as binary (bytes), attempt to autodetect the encoding using charmap or byte search for an encoding string, and then decode the binary (bytes) into a python str type (unicode). Once as a python3 string replace any metadata encoding infonfrom the old encoding to utf-8 before using encode to create a utf-8 set of bytes for working with lxml and etc.
How does this plugin handle that process?
KevinH
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Unfortunately, this is I do not know. I am a retired mechanical engineer, not a computer programmer.
Regards bravosx