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cre8
cre8

Reputation: 13562

Python hex decoding shows wrong result for special charters

I tried to decode a hex string but special characters.

When I run

codecs.decode("5469eb73746f2026204b53484d5220666561742e205661737379", "hex")

I get b'Ti\xebsto & KSHMR feat. Vassy'

but I want Tiësto & KSHMR feat. Vassy

I checked the Hex code online but it is correct. Do I need another function or do I just miss one step?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 207

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1122382

You decoded the hex value to a bytes object. If you expected (Unicode) text, decode the bytes with a valid encoding; you appear to have either Latin 1 or Windows Codepage 1252 data here:

>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.decode("5469eb73746f2026204b53484d5220666561742e205661737379", "hex")
b'Ti\xebsto & KSHMR feat. Vassy'
>>> _.decode('latin1')
'Tiësto & KSHMR feat. Vassy'

Upvotes: 4

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