String encoding and unicode — GSTPy documentation

# 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.