Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols)

python string unicode type-conversion
williamtroup picture williamtroup · Jul 30, 2009 · Viewed 986.9k times · Source

How do you convert a Unicode string (containing extra characters like £ $, etc.) into a Python string?

Answer

Sorantis picture Sorantis · Jul 30, 2009

See unicodedata.normalize

title = u"Klüft skräms inför på fédéral électoral große"
import unicodedata
unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', title).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
'Kluft skrams infor pa federal electoral groe'

Related questions

What does the 'b' character do in front of a string literal?

Apparently, the following is the valid syntax: my_string = b'The string' I would like to know: What does this b character in front of the string mean? What are the effects of using it? What are appropriate situations to use …

Read More
Usage of unicode() and encode() functions in Python

I have a problem with encoding of the path variable and inserting it to the SQLite database. I tried to solve it with encode("utf-8") function which didn't help. Then I used unicode() function which gives me type unicode. print …

Read More
How to check if a string in Python is in ASCII?

I want to I check whether a string is in ASCII or not. I am aware of ord(), however when I try ord('é'), I have TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 2 found. I understood it …

Read More