Is there any way to decode String using unknown codec?

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:14 PM,  <howmuchistoday at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm a Korean and when I use modules like sys, os, &c,
> sometimes the interpreter show me broken strings like
> '\x13\xb3\x12\xc8'.
> It mustbe the Korean "alphabet" but I can't decode it to the rightway.
> I tried to decode it using codecs like cp949,mbcs,utf-8
> but It failed.
> The only way I found is eval('\x13\xb3\x12\xc8').
> It raises an Error with showing right Korean.
> Is there any way to deal it being not broken?
> --

It's not broken. You're just using the wrong encodings. Try utf-16le.