Re: how to find out utf or not

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From	Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject	Re: how to find out utf or not
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On 2013-11-05, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh 
><mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote:
>> Suppose i have a variable such as : myVar = 'x'
>
>> May be it initialized with myVar = u'x' or myVar = 'x'
>
>> So i need determine content of myVar that it's utf-8 or not, how 
> can i
>> do it?
>
> Use the type() function and compare to unicode or str
> respectively. E.g.  If type(myvar)==unicode:

That will tell you wether it's a unicode string or a byte string,
but not the encoding of the source bytes. Unless there's some
context I'm not privy to.

u'x' is (hopefully) decoded already, but the encoding of 'x' is
unknown.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Re: how to find out utf or not Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-05 08:41 -0600
  Re: how to find out utf or not Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-11-05 15:30 +0000
    Re: how to find out utf or not Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-06 00:03 -0600

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