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A tool whose purpose is to transcode should be asking the user to select explicit input and output formats, not guessing.
by 0xffff2 2y ago
A tool whose purpose is to transcode should be asking the user to select explicit input and output formats, not guessing.
- fl7305 2y ago> should be asking the user to select explicit input and output formats It depends on the requirements. If you're hired by a company to convert millions of old textfiles, they might want you to do it as well as possible using heuristics without any human input as a starting point.
- tempaccount1234 2y agoUnless the input is such garbage that asking the user is pointless (like a lot of web sources) and fixing manually is too time expensive. It becomes easier to just use https://pypi.org/project/ftfy/ https://pypi.org/project/ftfy/ on the input.