On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:57:55 +0100, David.Reksten wrote:
> How can I convert a string read from a database containing unicode
> literals, such as "Fr\u00f8ya" to the latin-1 equivalent, "Frøya"?
>
> I have tried variations around
> "Fr\u00f8ya".decode('latin-1')
> but to no avail.
In [388]: 'Fr\u00f8ya'.decode('unicode-escape')
Out[388]: u'Fr\xf8ya'
In [389]: print 'Fr\u00f8ya'.decode('unicode-escape')
Frøya
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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