Encoded file

[pengz1]

Hi!
Could I ask you, how can I know a file is encoded as 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16' or something else? Thanks in advance.

Zhi

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[Michel Claveau/Hamster]

Hi !

See in the module "codecs.py" :
# UTF-8
BOM_UTF8 = '\xef\xbb\xbf'

# UTF-16, little endian
BOM_LE = BOM_UTF16_LE = '\xff\xfe'

# UTF-16, big endian
BOM_BE = BOM_UTF16_BE = '\xfe\xff'

# UTF-32, little endian
BOM_UTF32_LE = '\xff\xfe\x00\x00'

# UTF-32, big endian
BOM_UTF32_BE = '\x00\x00\xfe\xff'

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[Paul Watson]

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Hi!
Could I ask you, how can I know a file is encoded as 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16' or something else? Thanks in advance.
Zhi

While there are BOM (Byte Order Mark) indicators specified by the Unicode
standard, very few files actually have them.

In general, this is still an old-fashioned protocol. You can ask the person
or look at the code that created the file.