'python arabic encoding issue
i have a text with windows-1256 encoding. now i want to convert text from arabic(windows-1256) to utf-8
sample text :
Óæí Ïæã ÈíåÞí
result :
سوي دوم بيهقي
i use this code to decode and encod to utf-8
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
data = "Óæí Ïæã ÈíåÞí"
print data.decode("windows-1256", "replace")
print data.encode("windows-1256")
that code return this result:
أ“أ¦أ أڈأ¦أ£ أˆأأ¥أأ
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mohmal2.py", line 5, in <module>
print data.encode("windows-1256")
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/cp1256.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
i found a site that can convert this text:
Solution 1:[1]
It looks like you have accidentally decoded the input as Windows-1252.
>>> "Óæí Ïæã ÈíåÞí".encode('cp1252').decode('cp1256')
'??? ??? ?????'
Solution 2:[2]
I would like to add to @josh-lee answer the case for python2.
If you are using python 2, add unicode prefix u
.
>>> u"Óæí Ïæã ÈíåÞí".encode('cp1252').decode('cp1256')
u'\u0633\u0648\u064a \u062f\u0648\u0645 \u0628\u064a\u0647\u0642\u064a'
>>> print _
??? ??? ?????
Solution 3:[3]
Following Josh Lee's solution, I used this line for reading csv with Farsi(Persian) characters and it worked pretty well:
df = pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\FILE PATH\FILE NAME\.csv',encoding='cp1256')
Sources
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Solution | Source |
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Solution 1 | Josh Lee |
Solution 2 | ?????? ?????? Suleyman Sahmi |
Solution 3 | Sara M |