Problem Regarding Handling of Unicode string

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

joy99 wrote:
> [...] it is giving me output like:
> '\xef\xbb\xbf\xe0\xa6\x85\xe0\xa6\xa8\xe0\xa7\x87\xe0\xa6\x95'
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^

These three bytes encode the byte-order marker (BOM, Unicode uFEFF) as
UTF-8, followed by codepoint u09a8 (look it up on unicode.org what that
is).

In any case, if this is produced as output, there is some missing
encoding/decoding going on. You mentioned that it works in one case but
doesn't in another. Since you didn't provide any information how to
reproduce what you saw, any further help is at most guesswork.

Uli

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