Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu Jun 28 13:18:12 EDT 2012

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howmuchistoday at gmail.com writes:

> 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').

This looks as if "sys.stdout/sys.stderr" knew the correct encoding.
Check it like this:

      import sys
      sys.stdout.encoding

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