Decoding Mac OS text in Python
macos, python
Solution
You can use the python codecs for these that are known by their names 'mac-roman', 'mac-turkish', etc.
>>> 'foo'.decode('mac-turkish')
u'foo'
You'll have to refer to them by their names, these numbers you've got in your question don't appear in the source files. For more information look at `$pylib/encodings/mac_*.py`.
Problem
I'm writing some code to parse RTF documents, and need to handle the various codepages they can use. Python comes with decoders for all the necessary Windows codepages, but I'm not sure how to handle the Mac ones: ``` # 77: "10000", # Mac Roman # 78: "10001", # Mac Shift Jis # 79: "10003", # Mac Hangul # 80: "10008", # Mac GB2312 # 81: "10002", # Mac Big5 # 83: "10005", # Mac Hebrew # 84: "10004", # Mac Arabic # 85: "10006", # Mac Greek # 86: "10081", # Mac Turkish # 87: "10021", # Mac Thai # 88: "10029", # Mac East Europe # 89: "10007", # Mac Russian ``` Does Python have any built-in support for these? If not, is there a cross-platform pure-Python library that will handle them?