cp1252 – Tarik Billa

Correctly reading text from Windows-1252(cp1252) file in python

July 27, 2023 by Tarik

CP1252 cannot represent ā; your input contains the similar character â. repr just displays an ASCII representation of a unicode string in Python 2.x: >>> print(repr(b’J\xe2nis’.decode(‘cp1252′))) u’J\xe2nis’ >>> print(b’J\xe2nis’.decode(‘cp1252’)) Jânis

Why does Eclipse use Cp1252 encoding? [closed]

May 23, 2023 by Tarik

When you start Eclipse against a brand new workspace, Eclipse has to decide which encoding to use, by default, when handling certain types of text-based files: text files, Java source files, JSP files, XML and so forth. By default, then, Eclipse uses the default platform encoding, which is derived from your operating system’s settings. As … Read more