Christian Ergh wrote:
A smiple way to try out different encodings in a given order:
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
def get_encoded(st, encodings):
"Returns an encoding that doesn't fail"
for encoding in encodings:
try:
st_encoded = st.decode(encoding)
return st_encoded, encoding
except UnicodeError:
pass
st = 'Test characters ��� ���'
encodings = ['utf-8', 'latin-1', 'ascii', ]
print get_encoded(st, encodings)
(u'Test characters \xe6\xf8\xe5 \xc6\xd8\xc5', 'latin-1')
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