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Valery Fludkov
Valery Fludkov

Reputation: 135

Decode french in python

I need to parse french string ("Vidéo") from UTF-8 file. But I get 'Vid\xc3\xa9o' instead of desired sting.

I tried decode('utf-8') but it will fail with following result: 

'Vid\xe9o'

How to fix this encoding issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1357

Answers (1)

zstewart
zstewart

Reputation: 2177

'\xe9' is the correct representation of the unicode 'é'. \x is the string escape sequence for a hexadecimal character and 'e9' is the hexadecimal value of the character 'é'. If you write the value of the string 'Vid\xe9o' to a file and open it with a program which supports displaying unicode characters, it should show up as 'Vidéo'.

Upvotes: 3

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