Convert a list with wrong encoding to utf8
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vergos.nikolas at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 14:02:14 EST 2019
Τη Πέμπτη, 14 Φεβρουαρίου 2019 - 8:16:40 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Calvin Spealman έγραψε:
> If you see something like this
>
> '\xce\x86\xce\xba\xce\xb7\xcf\x82
> \xce\xa4\xcf\x83\xce\xb9\xce\xac\xce\xbc\xce\xb7\xcf\x82'
>
> then you don't have a string, you have raw bytes. You don't "encode" bytes,
> you decode them. If you know this is already encoded as UTF-8 then you just
> need the decode('utf8') part and *not* the encode('latin1') step.
>
> encode() is something that turns text into bytes
> decode() is something that turns bytes into text
>
> So, if you already have bytes and you need text, you should only want to be
> doing a decode() and you just need to specific the correct encoding.
I Agree but I don't know in what encoding the string is encoded into.
I just tried
names = tuple( [s.decode('utf8') for s in names] )
but i get the error of:
AttributeError("'str' object has no attribute 'decode'",)
but why it says s is a string object? Since we have names in raw bytes is should be a bytes object?
How can i turn names from raw bytes to utf-8 strings?
ps. Who encoded them in raw bytes anyways? Since they fetced directly from the database shouldn't python3 have them stored in names as utf-8 strings? why raw bytes instead?
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