Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Lad wrote: > > > To be able to decode a string successfully, I need to know what coding > > it is in. > > ask whoever provided the string. > > > The string can be coded in utf8 or in windows-1250 or in another > > coding. Is there a method how to find out the string coding. > > in general, no. if you have enough text, you may guess, but the right > approach for that depends on the application. > > </F> Fredrik, Thank you for your reply The text is from Mysql table field that uses utf8_czech_ci collation, but when I try `RealName`.decode('utf8'),where RealName is that field of MySQL
I will get: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Can you please suggest the solution? Thank you L. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list