Trying to normalize the string "PartII\xa0I \x96 FINANCIAL\n INFORMATION". In general, all that should be left (once non utf-8 characters are excluded) are letters, numbers and dots. Therefore the expected output is "PartII FINANCIAL INFORMATION". The text comes from this Sec form. Solutions tried, where text is the string: text.encode(‘utf-8′, errors=’ignore’).decode(‘utf-8’) unicodedata.normalize(decoding, text) >Solution :… Read More Normalize string from webpage

I have an school assignment where we are asked to write our own serialize and deserialize functions in c++. Consider this simple class class Hello { int Int32; float Float; vector<int> Array; }; I am not able to find any way do it. Can anybody just give me rough guidance of how to achieve this?… Read More How to write a function for custom data type?

I am trying to reproduce the (ABC) example from this site: https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/acrobatsdk/html2015/index.html#t=Acro12_MasterBook%2Fpdfmark_Basic%2FBookmarks_OUT.htm For example, the Unicode string for (ABC) is <FEFF004100420043>. But when I try to reproduce just the ABC, I get: "ABC".encode(encoding="utf-16be") Out[29]: b’\x00A\x00B\x00C’ I think I am misunderstanding a larger concept, but I am unsure what to look for. I need to produce… Read More How do I encode text to utf-16be "correctly"?