Detect character encoding

[Mike Meyer]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:
> Michal wrote:
>> 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).
> But there is _no_ way to be absolutely sure. 8bit are 8bit, so each
> file is "legal" in all encodings.

Not quite. Some encodings don't use all the valid 8-bit characters, so
if you encounter a character not in an encoding, you can eliminate it
from the list of possible encodings. This doesn't really help much by
itself, though.

        <mike
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