Russian character decoding in python
<p>This question only for python:</p>

<p>I have a city name in a string in Russian language and which is in Unicode form like,</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><code>\u041C\u043E\u0441\u043A\u0432\u0430</code></p>
</blockquote>

<p>means </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><code>ÐÐ¾ÑÐºÐ²Ð°</code></p>
</blockquote>

<p>How to get original text instead of unicode characters?</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> Do not use any import module</p>

<p>In addition to vz0 answer : Pay attention to script's encoding.</p>

<p>This <strong>file</strong> will works great :</p>

<pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code># coding: utf-8
s = u"\u041C\u043E\u0441\u043A\u0432\u0430"
print(s)
</code></pre>

<p>But this one will lead to an UnicodeEncodeError :</p>

<pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code># coding: ASCII
s = u"\u041C\u043E\u0441\u043A\u0432\u0430"
print(s)
</code></pre>

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