"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Feb 7 23:06:56 CET 2008

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> UnicodeDecodeError: 'shift_jis' codec can't decode bytes in position 
> 0-1: illegal multibyte sequence

As Amaury says, this is CP932 and Shift-Jis-2004, but not Shift-Jis.
The IBM database must be incorrect: it lists as "all aliases" both
csShiftJIS and csWindows31J, yet, according to

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

they are different (MIBEnum 17 vs MIBEnum 2024).

Regards,
Martin

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