I have a string contains Unicode characters and I want to convert it to UTF-8 in python.
s = '\u0628\u06cc\u0633\u06a9\u0648\u06cc\u062a' I want convert s to UTF format.
- 4Possible duplicate of How to convert a string to utf-8 in PythonGadaaDhaariGeek– GadaaDhaariGeek2019-07-02 12:26:18 +00:00Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 12:26
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Add u as prefix for the string s then encode it in utf-8.
Your code will look like this:
s = u'\u0628\u06cc\u0633\u06a9\u0648\u06cc\u062a' s_encoded = s.encode('utf-8') print(s_encoded) I hope this helps.
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lenz
If the OP is using Python 3 (it seems so), then the
u prefix isn't necessary. But the .encode('utf8') is definitely right.Add the below line in the top of your .py file.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- It allows you to encode strings directly in your python script, like this:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- s = '\u0628\u06cc\u0633\u06a9\u0648\u06cc\u062a' print(s) Output :
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lenz
The source encoding declaration doesn't really apply here, because the string is entered with ASCII-only characters. It would be different if the string literal was actually composed of Arabic letters (not escape sequences).
Mark Tolonen
A coding line declares the encoding of the source file only. If you have only ASCII characters in the source (as above) it does nothing. In fact, in Python 3, UTF-8 is the default source encoding if undeclared.