How to decode cp1252 string?
This
s = u'Zåìôèðà'
print s.encode('latin1').decode('cp1251')
# Zемфира
Explanation: Zåìôèðà
is mistakenly treated as a unicode string, while it's actually a sequence of bytes, which mean Zемфира
in cp1251. By applying encode('latin1')
we convert this "unicode" string back to bytes, using codepoint numbers as byte values, and then convert these bytes back to unicode telling the decode we're using cp1251.
As to automatic decoding, the following brute force approach seems to work with your examples:
import re, itertools
def guess_decode(s):
encodings = ['cp1251', 'cp1252', 'utf8']
for steps in range(2, 10, 2):
for encs in itertools.product(encodings, repeat=steps):
r = s
try:
for enc in encs:
r = r.encode(enc) if isinstance(r, unicode) else r.decode(enc)
except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError) as e:
continue
if re.match(ur'^[\w\sа-яА-Я]+$', r):
print 'debug', encs, r
return r
print guess_decode(u'Zемфира')
print guess_decode(u'Zåìôèðà')
print guess_decode(u'ZåìôèðÃ\xA0')
Results:
debug ('cp1252', 'utf8') Zемфира
Zемфира
debug ('cp1252', 'cp1251') Zемфира
Zемфира
debug ('cp1252', 'utf8', 'cp1252', 'cp1251') Zемфира
Zемфира
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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LA_ almost 2 years
I am getting an mp3 tag (ID V1) with eyeD3 and would like to understand its encoding. Here is what I try:
>>> print(type(mp3artist_v1)) <type 'unicode'> >>> print(type(mp3artist_v1.encode('utf-8'))) <type 'str'> >>> print(mp3artist_v1) Zåìôèðà >>> print(mp3artist_v1.encode('utf-8').decode('cp1252')) Zåìôèðà >>> print(u'Zемфира'.encode('utf-8').decode('cp1252')) Zемфира
If I use an online tool to decode the value, it says that the value
Zемфира
could be converted to correct valueZемфира
by changing encodingsCP1252 → UTF-8
and valueZåìôèðà
by changing encodings likeCP1252 → CP1251
.What should I do to get
Zемфира
frommp3artist_v1
?.encode('cp1252').decode('cp1251')
works well, but how can I understand possible encoding automatically (just 3 encodings are possible -cp1251
,cp1252
,utf-8
? I was planning to use the following code:def forceDecode(string, codecs=['utf-8', 'cp1251', 'cp1252']): for i in codecs: try: print(i) return string.decode(i) except: pass print "cannot decode url %s" % ([string])
but it does not help since I should encode with one charset first and then decode with another.
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Aeon over 8 yearsThank you. With this help, I just wrote a basic plugin for Picard mp3 tagger to decode mangled cyrillic tags. github.com/Aeon/picard-plugins/blob/master/plugins/…