jawa.util.utf module¶

Utility methods for handling oddities in character encoding encountered when parsing and writing JVM ClassFiles or object serialization archives.

Note

http://bugs.python.org/issue2857 was an attempt in 2008 to get support for MUTF-8/CESU-8 into the python core.

jawa.util.utf.decode_modified_utf8(s: bytes) → str[source]¶

Decodes a bytestring containing modified UTF-8 as defined in section 4.4.7 of the JVM specification.

Parameters:	s – bytestring to be converted.
Returns:	A unicode representation of the original string.

jawa.util.utf.encode_modified_utf8(u: str) → bytearray[source]¶

Encodes a unicode string as modified UTF-8 as defined in section 4.4.7 of the JVM specification.

Parameters:	u – unicode string to be converted.
Returns:	A decoded bytearray.