<p>I have an MS Access database, how can I determine which encoding characters are used in the database?</p>

[{'answer_id': 81168, 'author': 'Philippe Grondier', 'author_id': 11436, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11436', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>ACCESS databases all use UTF-8 encoding since (at least) version 2000</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 30446096, 'author': 'denfromufa', 'author_id': 2230844, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2230844', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I think by default it is Windows-specific ANSI "encoding", more details here:</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/701920/2230844">https://stackoverflow.com/a/701920/2230844</a></p>\n\n<p>and in the second part of this answer:</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/24893224/2230844">https://stackoverflow.com/a/24893224/2230844</a></p>\n\n<p>I had one case, where the ACCESS database (.mdb) did not "fit" into ASCII in Python 2 because of ellipsis character, and <code>str.encode(\'dbcs\')</code> worked for me. Not UTF-8!</p>\n'}]
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