Python convert string from UTF-8 to Latin-1

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I feel stacked here trying to change encodings with Python 2 5  I have XML response  which I encode to UTF-8  response encode  utf-8    That is fine  but the program which uses this info doesn t like this encoding and I have to convert it to other code page  Real example is that I use ghostscript python module to embed pdfmark data to a PDF file - end result is with wrong characters in Acrobat   I ve done numerous combinations with  encode   and  decode   between  utf-8  and  latin-1  and it drives me crazy as I can t output correct result   If I output the string to a file with  encode  utf-8   and then convert this file from UTF-8 to CP1252  aka latin-1  with i e  iconv exe and embed the data everything is fine   Basically can someone help me convert i e  character    which is UTF-8 encoded as hex  C3 A1 to latin-1 as hex  E1   Thanks in advance

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Can you provide more details about what you are trying to do  In general  if you have a unicode string  you can use encode to convert it into string with appropriate encoding  Eg    gt  gt  gt  a   u  u00E1   gt  gt  gt  type a   lt type  unicode  gt   gt  gt  gt  a encode  utf-8     xc3 xa1   gt  gt  gt  a encode  latin-1     xe1

User · Answer

Instead of  encode  utf-8    use  encode  latin-1

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data  UTF-8 data  udata data decode  utf-8   data udata encode  latin-1   ignore     Should do it

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If the previous answers do not solve your problem  check the source of the data that won t print convert properly   In my case  I was using json load on data incorrectly read from file by not using the encoding  utf-8   Trying to de- encode the resulting string to latin-1 just does not help

[python] Python: convert string from UTF-8 to Latin-1

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