Decoding double encoded utf8 in Python

Question

I\'ve got a problem with strings that I get from one of my clients over xmlrpc. He sends me utf8 strings that are encoded twice :( so when I get them in python I have an uni

Answer 1

>>> s = u'Rafa\xc5\x82'
>>> s.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode('utf-8')
u'Rafa\u0142'
>>>