I've read that the Unicode encryption encompasses all other character encrpytions, but why do I get an error when trying this. I know I can decode with Latin but Unicode should be a superset.
'été'.decode('utf-8') 
- 1Unicode is not an encryption (or even an encoding) at all. You (and every programmer) should read joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.htmlroippi– roippi2015-02-10 21:45:10 +00:00Commented Feb 10, 2015 at 21:45
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You need to tell Python the encoding of your source file:
# coding=utf-8 a = 'été'.decode('utf-8') print a See PEP 263 for more details. Here's a relevant snippet:
To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed into the source files either as first or second line in the file
