Working with Redis 2.10 using redis-cli on Linux, I am faced with a problem regarding accents...
If I execute the command
set \"string\" \"à\
You need to spec the version of Redis and more importantly the client you are using.
If you are using a telnet client, the problem may be your client. Redis supports arbitrary bytes for values and UTF-8 is not a problem at all (if your client is properly converting the entered glyphs to the associated byte sequence.)
Try using
redis-cli --raw
It solved problem for me.
"\xc3\xa0" is just Unicode "à" in UTF-8 encoding. Just decode the string and you're done...
"you string".encode("utf-8") when you need get the string "you string".decode("utf-8")