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To be totally honest, I want to convert the unicode characters to their xmlcharref, keeping everything as a string). Thank you. python · python- ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Collectives ExploreCollectives Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Collectives™onStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. LearnmoreaboutCollectives Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams python3encodereplaceunicodecharacters AskQuestion Asked 5years,5monthsago Modified 5years,5monthsago Viewed 4ktimes 3 Accordingtothedocumentation,thefollowingcommand 'Brückenspinne'.encode("utf-8",errors='replace') Shouldgivemethebytesequenceb'Br??ckenspinne'.However,unicodecharactersarenotreplacedbutencodednevertheless: b'Br\xc3\xbcckenspinne' CanyoutellmehowIactuallyeliminateunicodecharacters?(Iusereplacefortestingpurposes,Iintendtouse'xmlcharrefreplace'later.Tobetotallyhonest,Iwanttoconverttheunicodecharacterstotheirxmlcharref,keepingeverythingasastring). Thankyou. pythonpython-3.xunicodepython-unicode Share Follow editedMay15,2017at14:30 falsetru 344k5757goldbadges684684silverbadges608608bronzebadges askedMay15,2017at14:23 LærneLærne 2,75111goldbadge1919silverbadges3131bronzebadges Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Trending(recentvotescountmore) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 3 utf-8encodingcanrepresentthecharacterü;noreplacementoccur. Useotherencodingthatcannotrepresentthecharacter.Forexampleascii: >>>'Brückenspinne'.encode("ascii",errors='replace') b'Br?ckenspinne' >>>'Brückenspinne'.encode("ascii",errors='xmlcharrefreplace') b'Brückenspinne' Share Follow answeredMay15,2017at14:29 falsetrufalsetru 344k5757goldbadges684684silverbadges608608bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoStackOverflow!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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