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

Question

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

Answer 1

There is a library that can help with Unicode issues called ftfy. Has made my life easier.

Example 1

import ftfy
print(ftfy.fix_text('ünicode'))

output -->
ünicode

Example 2 - UTF-8

import ftfy
print(ftfy.fix_text('\xe2\x80\xa2'))

output -->
•

Example 3 - Unicode code point

import ftfy
print(ftfy.fix_text(u'\u2026'))

output -->
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https://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

pip install ftfy

https://pypi.org/project/ftfy/