unknown encoding problem

Hi, I need to read in a text file which seems to be stored in some unknown encoding. Opening and reading the files content returns: f.read() '\x00 \x00 \x00\x00l\x00o\x00g\x00E\x00n\x00t\x00r\x00y\x00... Each character has a \x00 prepended to it. I suspect its some kind of unicode - how do I

Re: unknown encoding problem

Uwe Mayer wrote: I need to read in a text file which seems to be stored in some unknown encoding. Opening and reading the files content returns: f.read() '\x00 \x00 \x00\x00l\x00o\x00g\x00E\x00n\x00t\x00r\x00y\x00... Each character has a \x00 prepended to it. I suspect its some kind of

Re: unknown encoding problem

Uwe Mayer wrote: Hi, I need to read in a text file which seems to be stored in some unknown encoding. Opening and reading the files content returns: f.read() '\x00 \x00 \x00\x00l\x00o\x00g\x00E\x00n\x00t\x00r\x00y\x00... Each character has a \x00 prepended to it. I suspect its some kind of

Re: unknown encoding problem

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:45:35 +0200, Uwe Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to read in a text file which seems to be stored in some unknown encoding. Opening and reading the files content returns: f.read() '\x00 \x00 \x00\x00l\x00o\x00g\x00E\x00n\x00t\x00r\x00y\x00... Each character has