Python – 如何将 ASCII 字符串转换为 UTF-8？

Question

I am using a package in python that returns a string using ASCII characters as opposed to unicode (eg. returns 'seré' as opposed to seré).

Given this is python 3.8, the string is actually encoded in unicode, the package just seems to output it as if it were ASCII. As such, when I try to perform x.decode('utf-8') or x.encode('ascii'), neither work. Is there a way to make python treat the string as if it were ASCII, such that I can decode it to unicode? Or is there a package that can serve this purpose.

I am relatively new to python so I apologise if my explanation is unclear. I am happy to clarify things if needed.

Code

from spanishconjugator import Conjugator as c  
verb = c().conjugate('pasar', 'preterite', 'indicative', 'yo')
print(verb)  

This returns the string 'pasé' where it should return 'pasé'.

Update

From further searching and from your answers, it appears to be an issue to do with single 2-byte UTF-8 (é) characters being literally interpreted as two 1-byte latin-1 (é) characters (nothing to do with ASCII, my mistake).

Managed to fix it with:

verb.encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')

Thank you to those that commented.

Answer 1

If the input string contains the raw byte ordinals (such as \xc3\xa9 / é instead of é ) use latin1 to encode it to bytes verbatim, then decode with the desired encoding.

>>> "pasé".encode('latin1').decode()
'pasé'