On 27/06/2013 16:05, darpan6aya wrote: > How can i convert text of the following type > > नेपाली > > into devnagari unicode in Python 2.7? > Is that a bytestring? In other words, is its type 'str'? If so, you need to decode it. That particular string is UTF-8: >>> print "नेपाली".decode("utf-8") नेपाली