如何在python中将unicode转换为其原始字符

Question

I first tried typing in a Unicode character, encode it in UTF-8, and decode it back. Python happily gives back the original character. I took a look at the encoded string, it is b'\\xe6\\x88\\x91' . I don't understand what this is, it looks like 3 hex numbers.

Then I did some research and I found that the CJK set starts from 4E00, so now I want Python to show me what this character looks like. How do I do that? Do I need to convert 4E00 to the form of something like the one above?

Answer 1

You'll need to decode it using the UTF-8 encoding:

>>> print(b'\xe6\x88\x91'.decode('UTF-8'))
我

By decoding it you're turning the bytes (which is what b'...' is) into a Unicode string and that's how you can display / use the text.

Answer 2

The text b'\\xe6\\x88\\x91' is the representation of the bytes that are the utf-8 encoding of the unicode codepoint \我 which is the character 我. So there is no need in converting something, other than to a unicode string with .decode('utf-8') .