Decoding UTF-8 strings in Python

python, python-2.7

Solution

You need to properly decode the source text. Most likely the source text is in UTF-8 format, not ASCII.

Because you do not provide any context or code for your question it is not possible to give a direct answer.

I suggest you study how unicode and character encoding is done in Python:

http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html

Problem

I'm writing a web crawler in python, and it involves taking headlines from websites. One of the headlines should've read : And the Hip's coming, too But instead it said: And the Hip’s coming, too What's going wrong here?

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