UnicodeDecodeError issue

[MRAB]

On 02/09/2013 13:24, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 2/9/2013 07:56, MRAB wrote:
>
>> On 02/09/2013 12:38, Dave Angel wrote:
>
>     <snip>
>
>>> ¶γνωστοόνομα συστήματος
>>>
>>> I don't have a clue what it might be;  it's not English, and I don't
>>> know whatever language it may be in.
>>>
>> You don't recognise Greek?
>
> I recognize most of those as Greek characters, but as I said, I don't
> know Greek.  And because I can't recognize words, I can't assume it
> might not be some other language that uses the same glyphs.
>
I don't know Greek either, and I don't think there's any other language
that uses the Greek alphabet.

>>
>>> Does that string make any sense to you?  You may want to try it on your
>>> own machine, since the email may obscure the encoding.  Or you might
>>> want to do the decode using whatever the default encoding is for that
>>> server.
>>>
>>> The Linux 'file' utility thinks this string is in ISO-8859, so you might
>>> want to try a decode('ISO-8859-1') as well.  (and maybe  ISO-8859-2, -3,
>>> -4, and -5)
>>>
>> It's ISO-8859-7 (Greek).
>