Question

I did some script in python that connects to GMAIL and print a email text… But, often my emails has words with “accent”. And there is my problem…

For example a text that I got: “PLANO DE S=C3=9ADE” should be printed as “PLANO DE SAÚDE”.

How can I turn legible my email text? What can I use to convert theses letters with accent?

Thanks,

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The code suggested by Andrey, works fine on windows, but on Linux I still getting the wrong print:

>>> b = 'PLANO DE S=C3=9ADE'
>>> s = b.decode('quopri').decode('utf-8')
>>> print s
PLANO DE SÃDE

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Rafael,

Thanks, you are correct about the word, it was misspelled.
But the problem still the same here. Another example:
CORRECT WORD: obersevação

>>> b = 'Observa=C3=A7=C3=B5es'
>>> s = b.decode('quopri').decode('utf-8')
>>> print s
Observações

I am using Debian with UTF-8 locale:

>>> :~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

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Andrey,

Thanks for your time. I agree with your explanation, but still with same problem here. Take look in my test:

   s='Observa=C3=A7=C3=B5es'
   s2= s.decode('quopri').decode('utf-8')

   >>> print s

   Observa=C3=A7=C3=B5es

   >>> print s2

   Observações

   >>> import locale

   >>> ENCODING = locale.getpreferredencoding()

   >>> print s.encode(ENCODING)
   Observa=C3=A7=C3=B5es

   >>> print s2.encode(ENCODING)
   Observações

   >>> print ENCODING
   UTF-8