mutf8_encode_decode_string_quickstart.py

1from mutf8 import encode_mutf8, decode_mutf8
2
3# A string containing a null character and a character outside the BMP
4# which are handled differently in MUTF-8 than standard UTF-8.
5unicode_string = "\u0000 \U0001F600"
6
7# Encode to MUTF-8 (Modified UTF-8) bytes
8binary_data = encode_mutf8(unicode_string)
9
10# Decode back to a Python string
11decoded_string = decode_mutf8(binary_data)
12
13print(f"Original: {unicode_string}")
14print(f"Encoded:  {binary_data}")
15print(f"Decoded:  {decoded_string}")