Encoding of String

Andreas Jung andreas at andreas-jung.com
Mon Nov 4 11:47:53 EST 2002


No, since a unicode string is unicode does not depend on the
encoding it was encoding in.

-aj

--On Montag, 4. November 2002 17:40 +0100 Thomas Guettler 
<zopestoller at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to get the encoding of a string?
>
> Suppose I do:
>
> mystring="blu"
> ustring=unicode(mystring, "utf-8")
>
> later I want to know which encoding ustring has:
> ustring.getEcoding() --> "utf-8"
>
> Is there something like "getEcoding()"?
>
>   thomas
>
>
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