String is ASCII or UTF-8?

[C. Benson Manica]

Hours of Googling has not helped me resolve a seemingly simple
question - Given a string s, how can I tell whether it's ascii (and
thus 1 byte per character) or UTF-8 (and two bytes per character)?
This is python 2.4.3, so I don't have getsizeof available to me.
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