Change unicode to actual character?
Question:
I have this string \u2605 which codes for ★, and I want to change it so that:
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It prints either ★ or the “?” command prompt replacement, rather than \u2605
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I can send the string into functions as ★ not \u2605
How do I change/encode the string?
Answers:
You can pass the bytes to decode('unicode-escape'):
s = '\u2605 Amazing \u2605'
s = bytes(s, 'utf8').decode( 'unicode-escape' )
print(s)
# ★ Amazing ★
note: not sure if this is a problem in your case, but decode( 'unicode-escape' ) does not handle un-escaped, non-ascii, so something like s = '\u2605 Ama ★ zing \u2605' would cause problems. See issue here. A possible solution in this case is to escape the entire string and then decode:
s = s.encode('ascii','backslashreplace').decode( 'unicode-escape' )
For all of those who have this issue in Pycharm terminal or run window, change in settings: Editor -> General -> Console -> Default Encoding to UTF-8
I have this string \u2605 which codes for ★, and I want to change it so that:
-
It prints either
★or the “?” command prompt replacement, rather than\u2605 -
I can send the string into functions as
★not\u2605
How do I change/encode the string?
You can pass the bytes to decode('unicode-escape'):
s = '\u2605 Amazing \u2605'
s = bytes(s, 'utf8').decode( 'unicode-escape' )
print(s)
# ★ Amazing ★
note: not sure if this is a problem in your case, but decode( 'unicode-escape' ) does not handle un-escaped, non-ascii, so something like s = '\u2605 Ama ★ zing \u2605' would cause problems. See issue here. A possible solution in this case is to escape the entire string and then decode:
s = s.encode('ascii','backslashreplace').decode( 'unicode-escape' )
For all of those who have this issue in Pycharm terminal or run window, change in settings: Editor -> General -> Console -> Default Encoding to UTF-8