On Jun 8, 12:13 am, "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > higer <higerinbeij...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My file contains such strings : > > \xe6\x97\xa5\xe6\x9c\x9f\xef\xbc\x9a > > If those bytes are what is in the file (and it sounds like they are), > then the data in your file is not in UTF8 encoding, it is in ASCII > encoded as hexidecimal escape codes.
OK, I'll bite: what *ASCII* character is encoded as either "\xe6" or r"\xe6" by what mechanism in which parallel universe? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
