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Small example hot to convert german special characters from unicode to utf-8 and back to unicode
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# Small example how to convert german special characters from unicode to utf-8 and back to unicode | |
# http://www.utf8-zeichentabelle.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=128&number=128&names=-&utf8=string-literal | |
# | |
umlaute_dict = { | |
'\xc3\xa4': 'ae', # U+00E4 \xc3\xa4 | |
'\xc3\xb6': 'oe', # U+00F6 \xc3\xb6 | |
'\xc3\xbc': 'ue', # U+00FC \xc3\xbc | |
'\xc3\x84': 'Ae', # U+00C4 \xc3\x84 | |
'\xc3\x96': 'Oe', # U+00D6 \xc3\x96 | |
'\xc3\x9c': 'Ue', # U+00DC \xc3\x9c | |
'\xc3\x9f': 'ss', # U+00DF \xc3\x9f | |
} | |
def replace_german_umlaute(unicode_string): | |
utf8_string = unicode_string.encode('utf-8') | |
for k in umlaute_dict.keys(): | |
utf8_string = utf8_string.replace(k, umlaute_dict[k]) | |
return utf8_string.decode() |
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