Hi
I am trying to convert CGI data, which arrives encoded with escape characters, into unicode data.
t represents the type of character data that I start with (the result of fetching cgi-field data from a cgi.FieldStorage object).
>>> t = '\x93quotation marks\x94, and a series of other characters: \x91\xe5 \xdf \xa9 \xe6 \xee \x9c\x92'
>>> import codecs
>>> t.encode('utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
I've tried using all sorts of other intermediary codecs, but I just haven't managed to get useful unicode out the other end.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
James King
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