How to unpack data to unicode string?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin Bless wrote:

> I'm doing a bit of analyzing TrueType files. (BTW, there's some good
> information at www.microsoft.com/typography). There can be chunks of
> unicode data inside truetype files which I can extract via slicing:
>
>   rawText = data[start:end]
>
> Now, how do I do the transformation of rawText
> '\x00N\x00o\x00r\x00m\x00a\x00l'  ->  u'Normal' ?

try this:

    u = unicode(s, "utf-16-be")

also take a look at TTX/TTLib:

    http://www.letterror.com/code/ttx/index.html

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