How to encode with python to translate %E4 to ä

Question

I need to convert a string into a different encoding which I believe is Windows1252, not sure though.

The characters would be:

%E4 = ä
%F6 = ö

I tried urlencode, quote, quote_plus, encode... nothing did the trick.

Maybe I am using the wrong encoding?

'mausebär'.encode('Windows-1252')

Should become:

'mauseb%e4r'

Any ideas how to encode with the same characterset?

You need two steps: First encode string into bytes, then escape the bytes outside of printable ASCII as %.. — Michael Butscher, Dec 07 '20 at 22:26

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 07 '20 at 22:35

You're looking for URL quoting with CP-1252 (AKA Windows-1252) encoding. You can use urllib.parse.quote with the encoding parameter:

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> urllib.parse.quote('ä', encoding='cp1252')
'%E4'
>>> urllib.parse.quote('ö', encoding='cp1252')
'%F6'

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