I want to do this:
Take the bytes of this utf-8 string:
访视频
Encode those bytes in latin-1 and print the result:
访视频
How do I do this in Python?
# -*- coding: utf-8
s = u'访视频'.encode('latin-1')
Causes this exception:
s = u'访视频'.encode('latin-1')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordinal not in range(256)
What you're asking to do is literally impossible. You can't encode those characters to Latin-1, because those characters don't exist in Latin-1.
To get the output you want, you want to decode the UTF-8 bytes as if they were Latin-1. Like this:
However, your desired output doesn't look like actual Latin-1, because in Latin-1, characters
\x86
and\x91
are non-printable, so you're going to get this:(Notice that space in the middle in place of
†
, and the missing‘
at the end; those are actually invisible control characters, not spaces.)It looks like you want a Latin-1 superset, probably Windows codepage 1252. In which case what you really want is: