Convert GBK to utf8 string in python

Question

I have a string.

s = u\"

        

Answer 1

You are mixing apples and oranges. The GBK-encoded string is not a Unicode string and should hence not end up in a u'...' string.

This is the correct way to do it in Python 2.

g = '\xc7\xeb\xca\xe4\xc8\xeb\xd5\xfd\xc8\xb7\xd1\xe9\xd6\xa4\xc2\xeb,' \
    '\xd0\xbb\xd0\xbb!'.decode('gbk')
s = u""

Notice how the initializer for g which is passed to .decode('gbk') is not represented as a Unicode string, but as a plain byte string.

See also http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html