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Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

Date 2013-09-02 15:44 +0100
From MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Subject Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue
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On 02/09/2013 13:24, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 2/9/2013 07:56, MRAB wrote:
>
>> On 02/09/2013 12:38, Dave Angel wrote:
>
>     <snip>
>
>>> ¶γνωστοόνομα συστήματος
>>>
>>> I don't have a clue what it might be;  it's not English, and I don't
>>> know whatever language it may be in.
>>>
>> You don't recognise Greek?
>
> I recognize most of those as Greek characters, but as I said, I don't
> know Greek.  And because I can't recognize words, I can't assume it
> might not be some other language that uses the same glyphs.
>
I don't know Greek either, and I don't think there's any other language
that uses the Greek alphabet.

>>
>>> Does that string make any sense to you?  You may want to try it on your
>>> own machine, since the email may obscure the encoding.  Or you might
>>> want to do the decode using whatever the default encoding is for that
>>> server.
>>>
>>> The Linux 'file' utility thinks this string is in ISO-8859, so you might
>>> want to try a decode('ISO-8859-1') as well.  (and maybe  ISO-8859-2, -3,
>>> -4, and -5)
>>>
>> It's ISO-8859-7 (Greek).
>

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UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 09:41 +0300
  Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 16:53 +1000
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 10:02 +0300
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 10:18 +0300
  Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-31 09:25 +0200
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 10:58 +0300
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 11:31 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-31 11:28 +0000
          Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 15:58 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-08-31 16:07 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-31 15:44 +0000
  Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 23:50 -0700
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 17:12 +1000
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 10:23 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 17:28 +1000
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 10:35 +0000
          Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 16:59 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 15:40 +0000
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 20:51 +1000
    Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-01 08:35 +0000
      Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 17:08 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 17:25 +0300
        Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 15:36 +0000
          Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-01 19:10 +0300
            Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 01:23 +0300
              Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-01 23:14 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 07:16 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 11:38 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 14:49 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 12:21 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-02 18:05 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 18:28 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> - 2013-09-04 01:35 -0700
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-04 11:26 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-04 14:38 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-04 12:38 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Ferrous Cranus <nikos@superhost.gr> - 2013-09-04 17:29 +0300
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-05 00:17 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 03:07 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 13:59 +1000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 05:28 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-02 12:56 +0100
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-02 12:24 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-02 15:44 +0100
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-09-03 08:23 -0700
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-09-04 10:01 +0200
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-09-04 07:08 -0700
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 08:45 +1000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-03 14:56 +0000
                Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 20:49 -0400

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