How to create a unicode string in python?

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Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

A character encoding tells the computer how to interpret raw zeroes and ones into real characters. There are many different types of character encodings floating around at present but the ones we deal most frequently with are ASCII  8-bit encodings and Unicode-based encodings. The Unicode Standard provides a unique number for every character no matter what platform device application or language. In Python 3 all strings are sequences of Unicode characters . You have two options to create Unicode string in Python. Either use decode()  or create a new Unicode string with UTF-8 encoding by unicode(). The unicode() method is unicode(string[ encoding errors])  its arguments should be 8-bit strings. The first argument is converted to Unicode using the specified encoding if encoding argument left the ASCII encoding is used for the conversion. Example using Python 3: regular = regular string unicode_string = uUnicode string print(type(regular)) print(type(unicode_string)) Output:

Brahma Prakash Shukla · Answer

You have two options to create Unicode string in Python. Either use decode()  or create a new Unicode string with UTF-8 encoding by unicode() . The unicode() method is unicode(string[ encoding errors])  its arguments should be 8-bit strings.