在python中解码法语

Question

I need to parse french string ("Vidéo") from UTF-8 file. But I get 'Vid\\xc3\\xa9o' instead of desired sting.

I tried decode('utf-8') but it will fail with following result:

'Vid\xe9o'

How to fix this encoding issue?

Answer 1

'\\xe9' is the correct representation of the unicode 'é'. \\x is the string escape sequence for a hexadecimal character and 'e9' is the hexadecimal value of the character 'é'. If you write the value of the string 'Vid\\xe9o' to a file and open it with a program which supports displaying unicode characters, it should show up as 'Vidéo'.