Python convert utf-8 bytes to string

Question

I have difficulties converting those bytes to string:

 x = b'<strong>\xc5\xb7\xc3\xc0\xd0\xd4\xb8\xd0\xd0\xb1\xc1\xec\xb5\xa5\xbc\xe7\xb3\xa4\xd0\xe4\xb2\xbb\xb9\xe6\xd4\xf2\xc1\xac\xd2\xc2\xc8\xb9\xa3\xac\xb4\xf2\xd4\xec\xd1\xe7\xbb\xe1\xa1\xa2\xca\xb1\xc9\xd0\xb8\xd0\xca\xae\xd7\xe3\xa3\xac\xd5\xc3\xcf\xd4\xc5\xae\xd0\xd4\xf7\xc8\xc1\xa6\xa3\xac\xb4\xf3\xc1\xbf\xcf\xd6\xbb\xf5\xa3\xac\xbb\xb6\xd3\xad\xd0\xc2\xc0\xcf\xbf\xcd\xbb\xa7\xc4\xc3\xd1\xf9\xb2\xc9\xb9\xba\xa3\xa1</strong>'

if i decode via unicode-escape i got weird characters like:

'<strong>Å·ÃÀÐÔ¸ÐбÁìµ¥¼ç³¤Ðä²»¹æÔòÁ¬ÒÂȹ£¬´òÔìÑç»á¡¢Ê±ÉиÐÊ®×㣬ÕÃÏÔÅ®ÐÔ÷ÈÁ¦£¬´óÁ¿ÏÖ»õ£¬»¶Ó\xadÐÂÀÏ¿Í»§ÄÃÑù²É¹º£¡</strong>'

instead of chinese charaters like欧美性感斜领单肩长袖不规则连衣裙

Answer 1

You seem to be using the wrong encoding. The right encoding seem to be 'GB2312'.

>>> x.decode('GB2312')
'<strong>欧美性感斜领单肩长袖不规则连衣裙... more symbols</strong>'