How to unpack data to unicode string?

[Martin Bless]

[Fredrik Lundh]:

>> Now, how do I do the transformation of rawText
>> '\x00N\x00o\x00r\x00m\x00a\x00l'  ->  u'Normal' ?
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>try this:
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>    u = unicode(s, "utf-16-be")

Great, it works. BTW, Python handling of unicode stuff seems to be
hard stuff for Python newbies, as there aren't many useful examples,
most of the sources are in c++ and not Python and comments - where
present - more seem to address those who already know.

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>also take a look at TTX/TTLib:
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>    http://www.letterror.com/code/ttx/index.html

Yes, thanks. Very interesting.