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Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue
Date 2013-09-02 11:38 +0000
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On 2/9/2013 00:16, Ferrous Cranus wrote:


>>
>> Have you tried to decode those bytes in various encodings other than
>> utf-8 ?
>
>
> No, because i wasn't aware of what string/variable they were pertaining at.
>
>

  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet

is a package which tries to 'guess' an encoding for a string of bytes. 
I happen to have the 2.7 version installed, but not the 3.x version, so
the following is in 2.7. Same thing should work in 3.3....

>>> chardet.detect(b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef\xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 \xf3\xf5\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2')
{'confidence': 0.9638983132261467, 'encoding': 'windows-1253'}
>>> print b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef\xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 \xf3\xf5\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2'.decode('windows-1253')
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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.

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)




-- 
DaveA

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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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