Topics

• UTF-8 as an encoding way of Unicode
• Gotchas of pandas
• Getting started with encoding

Examples

• How to convert a byte array of UTF-8 data to a Unicode string in Python
• How to change the default encoding of the server to UTF-8
• Detecting missing values with np.nan
• Integer and NA
• Save an Excel file in UTF-8
• Automatic Data Alignment (index-awared behaviour)
• How to detect the encoding of a text file with Python?