docs: def UnicodeFromCodePage(string):
    """Attempt to coerce string into a unicode object."""
    # get the current code page
    codepage = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetOEMCP()
    try:
      return string.decode("cp%s" % codepage)
    except UnicodeError:
      try:
        return string.decode("utf16", "ignore")
      except UnicodeError:
        # Fall back on utf8 but ignore errors
        return string.decode("utf8", "ignore")