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How to convert messed up string to plain text – Telegram API

I am using python3 to receive and process text messages from a telegram channel. I sometimes get messages containing a string like this:

Ехchanges: Віnance Futures

Looking pretty normal. But when I want to check

if 'Exchanges' in the_string:

I get

False

Trying to track this down:

the_string.encode()

yields

b'xd0x95xd1x85changes: xd0x92xd1x96nance Futures'

How can I convert this to a usual string?

'Exchanges: Binance Futures'
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  1. 0

    Try to use encode() and decode() methods of the str class mixed together:

    >>> my_string = 'Ехchanges: Віnance Futures'
>>> 'Ехchanges' in my_string
True
>>> my_string.encode()
b'xd0x95xd1x85changes: xd0x92xd1x96nance Futures'
>>> 'Ехchanges' in my_string.encode().decode()
True
>>>
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  2. 0

    It’s utf-8 encoded string. You need to use string decoder decode('utf-8') here.

    Solution:

    encoded_string = b'xd0x95xd1x85changes: xd0x92xd1x96nance Futures'
decoded_string = encoded_string.decode("utf-8")
print(decoded_string)
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