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| # Borrow from http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/ | |
| # | |
| # Remember: | |
| # file/network (8-bit string) ----decode() -----> unicode -----encode()--------> file/network | |
| def to_unicode(obj, decoding='utf8'): | |
| """ | |
| decoding a 8-bit string to unicode | |
| """ | |
| if isinstance(obj, basestring): | |
| if not isinstance(obj, unicode): | |
| obj = unicode(obj, decoding) | |
| return obj |
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