If I define the variable
x = 'Ááa Éée'
then the output of
print x
is
Ááa Éée
But I have an unicode object
x = u'Ááa Éée'
and I need the same output as before. To do this, I tried converting it to a str with
str(u'Ááa Éée')
but it didn't work.
How can I do this? (I'm only interested exit.)
Actually, print u"Ááa Éée" should give you the exact same output as print "Ááa Éée". Maybe you are confusing with printing the representation of each one on the terminal. Anyway, if what you're asking is how to convert the unicode to str, use x.encode('utf-8').
str(u'Ááa Éée') is not working, because this conversion unicode -> str uses encoding ASCII by default and characters ÁáÉé are not present in ASCII.
You need this: u'Ááa Éée'.encode("UTF-8") - if your terminal uses UTF-8.
Things about unicode can be complicated, it's better to read something about it:
x = u'Ááa Éée' is unicode string
so, you You can only use unicode() instead str()
use unicode string
You need to specify the encoding
string = x.encode('utf-8') #utf-16 or ...
print string.decode('utf-8')
