Consider I have a Unicode string (Not the real unicode but the string that looks like unicode). and I want to get it's utf-8 variant. How can I do it in Python?
For example If I have String like:
title = "\\u10d8\\u10e1\\u10e0\\u10d0\\u10d4\\u10da\\u10d8 == \\u10d8\\u10d4\\u10e0\\u10e3\\u10e1\\u10d0\\u10da\\u10d8\\u10db\\u10d8"
How Can I do it so that I get its utf-8 variant (Georgian symbols):
ისრაელი == იერუსალიმი
To say it simply I want to Have code like:
title = "\\u10d8\\u10e1\\u10e0\\u10d0\\u10d4\\u10da\\u10d8 == \\u10d8\\u10d4\\u10e0\\u10e3\\u10e1\\u10d0\\u10da\\u10d8\\u10db\\u10d8"
utfTitle = title.TurnToUTF()
print(utfTitle)
And I want this code to have output:
ისრაელი == იერუსალიმი
解决方案
You can use the unicode-escape codec to get rid of the doubled-backslashes and use the string effectively.
Assuming that title is a str, you will need to encode the string first before decoding back to unicode(str).
>>> t = title.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode-escape')
>>> t
'ისრაელი == იერუსალიმი'
If title is a bytes instance you can decode directly:
>>> t = title.decode('unicode-escape')
>>> t
'ისრაელი == იერუსალიმი'