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Character and Text Representation Solution

Understand how to handle character and text representation in Python by exploring Unicode values, differences between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 encoding, and string manipulation techniques such as indexing and slicing. This lesson provides clear explanations and coding challenge solutions to help you master text data representation in computer systems.

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Coding challenge 1 solution

Python 3.5
def decodeIt():
    data = b"\xBC cup of flour"
    return data.decode("ISO-8859-1")

Explanation

Characters with Unicode values (in hex) between A0 and FF have identical character mappings but, in fact, the encodings are different. ...