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I've got a problem with strings that I get from one of my clients over xmlrpc. He sends me utf8 strings that are encoded twice :( so when I get them in python I have an unicode object that has to be decoded one more time, but obviously python doesn't allow that. I've noticed my client however I need to do quick workaround for now before he fixes it.
Raw string from tcp dump:
<string>Rafa\xc3\x85\xc2\x82</string> this is converted into:
u'Rafa\xc5\x82' The best we get is:
eval(repr(u'Rafa\xc5\x82')[1:]).decode("utf8") This results in correct string which is:
u'Rafa\u0142' this works however is ugly as hell and cannot be used in production code. If anyone knows how to fix this problem in more suitable way please write. Thanks, Chris
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To decode a string encoded in UTF-8 format, we can use the decode() method specified on strings. This method accepts two arguments, encoding and error . encoding accepts the encoding of the string to be decoded, and error decides how to handle errors that arise during decoding.
UTF-8 is a byte oriented encoding. The encoding specifies that each character is represented by a specific sequence of one or more bytes.
There is no difference between "utf8" and "utf-8"; they are simply two names for UTF8, the most common Unicode encoding.
>>> s = u'Rafa\xc5\x82' >>> s.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode('utf-8') u'Rafa\u0142' >>>
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