encoding property

LoadOptions.encoding property

Gets or sets the encoding that will be used to load an HTML, TXT, or CHM document if the encoding is not specified inside the document. Can be None. Default is None.

@property
def encoding(self) -> str:
    ...

@encoding.setter
def encoding(self, value: str):
    ...

Remarks

This property is used only when loading HTML, TXT, or CHM documents.

If encoding is not specified inside the document and this property is None, then the system will try to automatically detect the encoding.

Examples

Shows how to set the encoding with which to open a document.

# A FileFormatInfo object will detect this file as being encoded in something other than UTF-7.
file_format_info = aw.FileFormatUtil.detect_file_format(MY_DIR + 'Encoded in UTF-7.txt')
self.assertNotEqual('utf-7', file_format_info.encoding)
# If we load the document with no loading configurations, Aspose.Words will detect its encoding as UTF-8.
doc = aw.Document(MY_DIR + 'Encoded in UTF-7.txt')
# The contents, parsed in UTF-8, create a valid string.
# However, knowing that the file is in UTF-7, we can see that the result is incorrect.
self.assertEqual('Hello world+ACE-', doc.to_string(aw.SaveFormat.TEXT).strip())
# In cases of ambiguous encoding such as this one, we can set a specific encoding variant
# to parse the file within a LoadOptions object.
load_options = aw.loading.LoadOptions()
load_options.encoding = 'utf-7'
# Load the document while passing the LoadOptions object, then verify the document's contents.
doc = aw.Document(MY_DIR + 'Encoded in UTF-7.txt', load_options)
self.assertEqual('Hello world!', doc.to_string(aw.SaveFormat.TEXT).strip())

encoding property

LoadOptions.encoding property

Remarks

Examples

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