playing with encodings

main.py

# coding: utf8
a = "Père Noël"
print(f"a = \"{a}\"")
print(f"type(a) => {type(a)} \n")

b = a.encode('utf-8')
print(f"b = {b}")
print(f"type(b) => {type(b)} \n")

print("{encoding} \t {b.decode(encoding)}")
for encoding in ['cp1252', 'utf-8']:
    print(f"{encoding} \t\t {b.decode(encoding)}\n")

print("utf8 code sur 1 à 4 bytes de nombreux caractères")
c = b"\xe5\x81\x9a\xe6\x88\x8f\xe4\xb9\x8b\xe8\xaf\xb4"
print(c.decode('utf-8'))

"""
a = "Père Noël"
type(a) => <class 'str'> 

b = b'P\xc3\xa8re No\xc3\xabl'
type(b) => <class 'bytes'> 

{encoding} 	 {b.decode(encoding)}
cp1252 		 Père Noël

utf-8 		 Père Noël

utf8 code sur 1 à 4 bytes de nombreux caractères
做戏之说

Process finished with exit code 0


"""