Converting string unicode to latin

Question

I have the following result from some http requests:

 Tratamento\ da\ rejei\u00E7\u00E3o\ no\ cancelamento\ da\ desagrega\u00E7\u00E3o

i did some research and i was able to find this line of code, wich can convert utf-16 with the following line of code :

print unicode(u"\u00e3".encode("latin-1"), "latin-1")

My problem is, how i can convert a hole sentence of results from utf-16 to latin-1 ? Being more especific, how can convert or replace it to: "Tratamento da rejeição no cancelamento da desagragação"

@jamylak I took the reference from http://www.charbase.com/00e7-unicode-latin-small-letter-c-with-cedilla — thclpr, May 17 '13 at 12:46
that site also says unicode and doesn't mention utf-16, you are using unicode escapes — jamylak, May 17 '13 at 12:47
Both strings you've posted are the same (apart from the strange `\ ` escape). No conversion needed. — georg, May 17 '13 at 13:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '13 at 12:41

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Pass the whole string.

>>> u'Tratamento\ da\ rejei\u00E7\u00E3o\ no\ cancelamento\ da\ desagrega\u00E7\u00E3o'.encode('latin-1')
'Tratamento\\ da\\ rejei\xe7\xe3o\\ no\\ cancelamento\\ da\\ desagrega\xe7\xe3o'

answered May 17 '13 at 12:41

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