Why does my decoded Windows-1252 string show up as a unicode value in a dictionary but not the value,...
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In my application - following Ned Batchelder's recommendations of making a unicode sandwich - I first try to decode from Windows-1252 to UTF-8: row[field] =row[field].decode('cp1252').encode('utf-8') Later on, when I want to send my data to an endpoint I decode UTF-8: row[field] = fld.decode('utf-8') When I print just the field that has the offending Windows-1252 characters, it interprets them as such: print row['dash'] # as well — ... “the intent was" But when I try to print the entire dictionary I get unicode values: print row # as well xe2x80x93 ... xe2x80x9cthe intent wasxe2x80x9d I want the wp-1252 characters themselves or equivalents such as the straight quotation mark instead of the left or right quotation mark.
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