On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: >>Can you be sure it's Latin-1? I'm not certain of that. In any case, I >>never advocate fixing encoding problems by "just do this and it'll all >>go away"; you have to understand your data before you can decode it. >> >>ChrisA > > I can, I speak French and I recognise the data. It's French place names, > places where sporting events are held. :)
Ah, okay. :) But even with that level of confidence, you still have to pick between Latin-1 and CP-1252, which you can't tell based on this one snippet. Welcome to untagged encodings. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list