CSV中的德语Umlaute作为文字

Question

I have a csv that contains a field with German Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) as literals such like this:

b'Beitr\\xc3\\xa4ge'

I've tried to read this .csv and just print the original words ( Beiträge ), but no matter what I do, I only seem to get b'Beitr\\xc3\\xa4ge' back. I've tried following all sorts of advice on how to convert to and from Unicode, I've tried both Python 2.7 and 3, but I'm stumped.

What should I do?

Answer 1

Use the decode funtion:

b'Beitr\xc3\xa4ge'.decode('utf-8')

returns

Beiträge

Answer 2

I have to use these "Umlaute" as well. To solve that problem I write in every first line of my python modules

# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

Works fine for me in Python 3.6 If I than type s.th. like

print("Beträge")

The output in the console is "Beträge"