[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 'K\xc3\xb6ni'.decode('utf-8') # 'K\xc3\xb6ni' should be 'König',
> contains a german 'umlaut'
>
> but failed since python assumes every string to decode to be ASCII?
No, Python would assume the string to be utf-8 encoded in this case:
>>> 'K\xc3\xb6ni'.decode('utf-8').encode('latin1')
'K\xf6ni'
Your code must have failed somewhere else. Try posting actual failing code
and actual traceback.
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