Finding a \u0096

[Duncan Booth]

"Gustaf Liljegren" <gustafl at algonet.se> wrote in news:2ioH9.106
$LY2.1957 at newsc.telia.net:

> The first quote is: 'a' with circumflex, 'euro' and a right-slanted
> double quote. It works, but it's ugly. Isn't there a better way to
> write this?

You can convert a string using the Windows ANSI codepage to unicode 
and then re-encode it as utf-8:

>>> "\x96".decode('cp1252')
u'\u2013'
>>> "\x96".decode('cp1252').encode('utf8')
'\xe2\x80\x93'