codec to parse raw UCS data?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Oleg Leschov wrote:

> Where can I find a list and documentation for codecs?
> What I want to do is to make a unicode string out of unicode data.
> for example. I am parsing NTFS metadata, that contains filenames as
> UCS-2 code, so I have a binary string that pretends to be a UCS-2.

the "utf-16-le" codec is probably what you want.

(utf-16 is basically ucs-2 plus mechanisms to encode characters outside
the 16-bit BMP set; IIRC, Windows 2k and later uses utf-16, not ucs-2).

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