Yeah, I know the saying. My observation here is that the number of text encodings is generally decreasing, due to the fact that UTF-8 is obviously good. I want

Yeah, I know the saying. My observation here is that the number of text encodings is generally decreasing, due to the fact that UTF-8 is obviously good. I want wacky encodings to die. But this is just a class of encodings that have existed for decades and that Python missed. Perhaps on the basis that they were non-standard nonsense, but now they're standardized. It could be argued that web-windows-1252 is the third most common encoding in the world. If I'm giving directions for how to decode text in this encoding, it currently only works if you've imported ftfy first, even if you don't need ftfy.