Hello, I'm not able to correctly encode the following string in Python:
Algorithm
I have tried the following alternatives:
u'algor\u00edtimo'.encode('utf-8')
'algor\u00edtimo'.decode('utf-8')
u'algor\u00edtimo'.encode('ascii')
u'algor\u00edtimo'.encode('ascii')
Maybe this is what you are looking for:
plaintext = u'algor\u00edtimo'
encodedtext = plaintext.encode('utf-8')
print (encodedtext)
To encode a string to ascii you can do:
plaintext = u'algor\u00edtimo'
decodedtext = plaintext.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
print (decodedtext) # algortimo
The second parameter of the encode function causes probable errors to be ignored in conversion.
To decode a string you can use decode (or unicode ):
plaintext = u'algor\u00edtimo'
encodedtext = plaintext.encode('utf-8')
decodedtext = encodedtext.decode('utf-8')
print (encodedtext) # algorítimo
print repr(decodedtext) # u'algor\xedtimo'
This applies to Python 2, so there are some differences for 3, see Unicode HOWTO . See also encoding standards .
If you can better specify where you are having difficulties, it is best to solve the problem.