Michal wrote: > Hello, > is there any way how to detect string encoding in Python? > > I need to proccess several files. Each of them could be encoded in > different charset (iso-8859-2, cp1250, etc). I want to detect it, and > encode it to utf-8 (with string function encode). > > Thank you for any answer > Regards > Michal The two ways to detect a string's encoding are: (1) know the encoding ahead of time (2) guess correctly
This is the whole point of Unicode -- an encoding that works for _lots_ of languages. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list