String encoding and unicode¶
Strings used in GSTPy are standard python strings.
The character encoding is Windows-1252.
Note
If you put in any other encoding, you might get garbled results, especially with characters outside of the ASCII set.
Interfacing with python’s unicode strings¶
- use
unicode.decode('cp1252')
to get a string encoded in Windows-1252 from a unicode string. - use
str.encode('cp1252')
to get a unicode string from a Windows-1252 encoded string.