How to decode a string

[Fredrik Lundh]

Lad wrote:

> for
> print repr(RealName)  command
> I will get
> 
> P?ibylov\xe1 Ludmila
> where instead of  ? should be also a character

that's not very likely; repr() always includes quotes, always escapes 
non-ASCII characters, and optionally includes a Unicode prefix.

please try this

   print "*", repr(RealName), type(RealName), "*"

and post the entire output; that is, *everything* between the asterisks.

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