[bossanova808]

@pkscout - there's a Python bug in all the unicode shite - I use a different uncodeUni - giftie helped me with this, but since using it it's proved very robust...

Code:

##############################################################################
# properly unquote text coming back from e.g. LMS

def unquoteUni(text):

    try:
        import urllib.parse
        return urllib.parse.unquote(text, encoding=self.charset)
    except ImportError:
        #import urllib
        #return urllib.unquote(text)
        _hexdig = '0123456789ABCDEFabcdef'
        _hextochr = dict((a+b, chr(int(a+b,16))) for a in _hexdig for b in _hexdig)
        if isinstance(text, unicode):
            text = text.encode('utf-8')
        res = text.split('%')
        for i in xrange(1, len(res)):
            item = res[i]
            try:
                res[i] = _hextochr[item[:2]] + item[2:]
            except KeyError:
                res[i] = '%' + item
            except UnicodeDecodeError:
                res[i] = unichr(int(item[:2], 16)) + item[2:]
        return "".join(res)

...you probably are aware/have similar but just in case....