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Mohit Kumar
Mohit Kumar

Reputation: 510

Python 3 : Converting UTF-8 unicode Hindi Literal to Unicode

I have a string of UTF-8 literals

'\xe0\xa4\xb9\xe0\xa5\x80 \xe0\xa4\xac\xe0\xa5\x8b\xe0\xa4\xb2' which covnverts to

ही बोल in Hindi. I am unable convert string a to bytes

a = '\xe0\xa4\xb9\xe0\xa5\x80 \xe0\xa4\xac\xe0\xa5\x8b\xe0\xa4\xb2'
#convert a to bytes
#also tried a = bytes(a,'utf-8')
a = a.encode('utf-8')
s = str(a,'utf-8')

The string is converted to bytes but contains wrong unicode literals

RESULT : b'\xc3\xa0\xc2\xa4\xc2\xb9\xc3\xa0\xc2\xa5\xc2\x80 \xc3\xa0\xc2\xa4\xc2\xac\xc3\xa0\xc2\xa5\xc2\x8b\xc3\xa0\xc2\xa4\xc2\xb2' which prints - हॠबà¥à¤²

EXPECTED : It should be b'\xe0\xa4\xb9\xe0\xa5\x80\xe0\xa4\xac\xe0\xa5\x8b\xe0\xa4\xb2 which will be ही बोल

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5909

Answers (3)

King Lucy
King Lucy

Reputation: 1

After using above code ,You are still facing error to encode your string. Use sys module to encode the string .

  • Use this code -
  •    import sys

  •    sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding='utf8',errors='backslashreplace')

  •    s='\xe0\xa4\xb9\xe0\xa5\x80 \xe0\xa4\xac\xe0\xa5\x8b\xe0\xa4\xb2'

  •    print(s.encode('raw-unicode-escape').decode('utf-8'))

  •    or print(txt.encode().decode())

Upvotes: -1

Mark Tolonen
Mark Tolonen

Reputation: 177674

Your original string was likely decoded as latin1. Decode it as UTF-8 instead if possible, but if received messed up you can reverse it by encoding as latin1 again and decoding correctly as UTF-8:

>>> s = '\xe0\xa4\xb9\xe0\xa5\x80 \xe0\xa4\xac\xe0\xa5\x8b\xe0\xa4\xb2'
>>> s.encode('latin1').decode('utf8')
'ही बोल'

Note that latin1 encoding matches the first 256 Unicode code points, so U+00E0 ('\xe0' in a Python 3 str object) becomes byte E0h (b'\xe0' in a Python 3 bytes object). It's a 1:1 mapping between U+0000-U+00FF and bytes 00h-FFh.

Upvotes: 1

snakecharmerb
snakecharmerb

Reputation: 55640

Use the raw-unicode-escape codec to encode the string as bytes, then you can decode as UTF-8.

>>> s = '\xe0\xa4\xb9\xe0\xa5\x80 \xe0\xa4\xac\xe0\xa5\x8b\xe0\xa4\xb2'
>>> s.encode('raw-unicode-escape').decode('utf-8')
'ही बोल'

This is something of a workaround; the ideal solution would be to prevent the source of the data stringifying the original bytes.

Upvotes: 2

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