On 13Sep2018 08:23, Ryan Smith <r...@allwegot.net> wrote:
[...] I'm still getting familiar with all of the
different encodings at play. For example the way I currently
understand things is that python supports unicode which ultimately
defaults to being encoded in UTF-8. Hence I'm guessing is the reason
for converting strings to a bytes object in the first place.
Yeah. "str" is text, using Unicode code points.
To store this in a file, the text must be transcribed in some encoding. The
default encoding in Python is UTF-8, which has some advantages: the bottom 128
values are one to one with ASCII, and it is fairly compact when the source text
live in or near that range.
Windows often works with UTF-16, which is why your source bytes look the way
they do.
So the path is:
base64 text (which fits in a conservative subset of ASCII)
=> bytes holding a UTF-16 encoding of your target text
=> decode to a Python str
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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