Udemy – Unicode in Python Working With Character Encodings

Python’s Unicode support is strong and robust, but it takes some time to master. There are many ways of encoding text into binary data, and in this course you’ll learn a bit of the history of encodings. You’ll also spend time learning the intricacies of Unicode, UTF-8, and how to use them when programming Python. You’ll practice with multiple examples and see how smooth working with text and binary data in Python can be!

By the end of this course, you’ll know:

What an encoding is
What ASCII is
How binary displays as octal and hex values
How UTF-8 encodes a code point
How to combine code points into a single glyph
Which built-in functions can help you

Unicode & Character Encodings in Python: A Painless Guide

by Brad Solomon 9 Comments advanced python
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Table of Contents

What’s a Character Encoding?
The string Module
A Bit of a Refresher
We Need More Bits!
Covering All the Bases: Other Number Systems
Enter Unicode
Unicode vs UTF-8
Encoding and Decoding in Python 3
Python 3: All-In on Unicode
One Byte, Two Bytes, Three Bytes, Four
What About UTF-16 and UTF-32?
Python’s Built-In Functions
Python String Literals: Ways to Skin a Cat
Other Encodings Available in Python
You Know What They Say About Assumptions.
Odds and Ends: unicodedata
Wrapping Up
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