I started writing a program to parse the headers of truetype fonts to examine their family info. But I can't manage to print out the strings without the zero bytes in between each character (they display as a black block labeled 'NUL' in Scite's output pane)
I tried: stuff = f.read(nlength) stuff = unicode(stuff, 'utf-8')
If there are embeded 0's in the string, it won't be utf8, it could be utf16 or 32.
Try:
unicode(stuff, 'utf-16')
or
stuff.decode('utf-16')
print type(stuff), 'stuff', stuff.encode() This prints:
<type 'unicode'> stuff [NUL]C[NUL]o[NUL]p[NUL]y[NUL]r[NUL]i[NUL]g[NUL]
I don't understand what you tried to accomplish here.
Apparently I'm missing something simple, but I don't know what.
Try the other encodings. It probably is utf-16.
Javier
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