In Python 3, decoding "€" with unicode-escape returns 'â\x82¬' which in my
opinion doesn't make sense.
The € already is decoded; if it were encoded it would look like this:
'\u20ac'.
So why is it doing this?
In Python 2 the behaviour is similar, but slightly different.
$ python3 -S
Python 3.3.3 (
2015-05-10 20:39 GMT+02:00 Albert-Jan Roskam :
>
> Hi,
>
> I only have Python 2 on my phone, but I am suprised that you (and are able
> to) decode unicode strings. What result do you get when you do the
> following in Python 3:
>
> Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 25 2014, 20:52:15)
> [GCC 4.9 20140827
2015-05-10 18:06 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico :
> Whenever you start encoding and decoding, you need to know whether
> you're working with bytes->text, text->bytes, or something else. In
> the case of unicode-escape, it expects to encode text into bytes, as
> you can see with your second example - you
