On Mar 9, 12:07 pm, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > You can't. You can apply one or more heuristics, depending on exactly > what your requirement is. But any valid ASCII text is also valid > UTF8-encoded text since UTF-8 isn't "two bytes per char" but a variable > number of bytes per char.
Hm, well that's very unfortunate. I'm using a database library which seems to assume that all strings passed to it are ASCII, and I'm attempting to use it on two different systems - one where all strings are ASCII, and one where they seem to be UTF-8. The strings come from the same place, i.e. they're exclusively normal ASCII characters. What I would want is to check once for whether the strings passed to function foo() are ASCII or UTF-8, and if they are to assume that all strings need to be decoded. So that's not possible? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
