[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm struggling with the conversion of a UTF-8 string to latin-1. As far
> as I know the way to go is to decode the UTF-8 string to unicode and
> then encode it back again to latin-1?
>
> So I tried:
>
> 'K\xc3\xb6ni'.decode('utf-8') # 'K\xc3\xb6ni' should be 'König',
"Köni", to be precise.
> contains a german 'umlaut'
>
> but failed since python assumes every string to decode to be ASCII?
that should work, and it sure works for me:
>>> s = 'K\xc3\xb6ni'.decode('utf-8')
>>> s
u'K\xf6ni'
>>> print s
Köni
what did you do, and how did it fail?
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