how to decode rtf characterset ?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I want to translate rtf files to unicode strings.
> I succeeded in remove all the tags,
> but now I'm stucked to the special accent characters,
> like :
> 
> "Vóór"
> 
> the character "ó" is represented by the string r"\'f3",
> or in bytes: 92, 39,102, 51

> so I think I need a way to translate that into the string r"\xf3"
> but I can't find a way to accomplish that.
> 
> a
> Any suggestions are very welcome.

You could try something along these lines:

>>> s = r"\'f3"
>>> s = s.replace("\\'", "\\x")
>>> u = s.decode('unicode-escape')
>>> u
u'\xf3'

However, this assumes Latin-1 codes being using by the RTF
text.

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