Encoded file

[pengz1@netzero.com]

Hi!
Could I ask you, how can I know a file is encoded as 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16' or something else? Thanks in advance.

Zhi

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[Michel Claveau/Hamster]

Re: Encoded file

Hi !



See in the module "codecs.py" :


# UTF-8
BOM_UTF8 = '\xef\xbb\xbf'

# UTF-16, little endian
BOM_LE = BOM_UTF16_LE = '\xff\xfe'

# UTF-16, big endian
BOM_BE = BOM_UTF16_BE = '\xfe\xff'

# UTF-32, little endian
BOM_UTF32_LE = '\xff\xfe\x00\x 00'

# UTF-32, big endian
BOM_UTF32_BE = '\x00\x00\xfe\x ff'



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[Paul Watson]

Re: Encoded file


<pengz1@netzero .com> wrote in message
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> Hi!
> Could I ask you, how can I know a file is encoded as 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16' or[/color]
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> Zhi[/color]

While there are BOM (Byte Order Mark) indicators specified by the Unicode
standard, very few files actually have them.

In general, this is still an old-fashioned protocol. You can ask the person
or look at the code that created the file.