Unicode literals to latin-1

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> <David.Reksten at sweco.no> (DR) wrote:

>DR> How can I convert a string read from a database containing unicode literals, such as "Fr\u00f8ya" to the latin-1 equivalent, "Frøya"?
>DR> I have tried variations around
>DR>   "Fr\u00f8ya".decode('latin-1')
>DR> but to no avail.

You have to use encode instead of decode, and the input string must be a
unicode string.

>>> print u"Fr\u00f8ya".encode('latin-1')
Frøya
>>> 


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