Decode a hex string into Chinese characters

Question

I have a hex code: %E7%B5%99. I want to convert it into Chinese characters.

print ("%E7%B5%99".decode('utf-8'))

This doesn't seem to work.

It should give the answer: 絙

Answer 1

You need to "unquote" the percent encoded string first. Then decode from UTF8:

>>> s = "%E7%B5%99"
>>> print urllib.unquote(s).decode('utf8')
絙