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Issue on text decoding and encoding problem - desul - Mar-02-2017

HELLO, 

while reading data from the text it is not reading properly as it. Please tell me how can solve it ...

sentences = nltk.sent_tokenize(texts.decode('utf-8'))
 

Output:
u2013specific
thanks for ur help


RE: ISSUE ON TEXT DECODING AND ENCODING PROBLEM - Ofnuts - Mar-02-2017

Looks like the text contains unicode escapes and is not de-escaped. What is the output of print repr(texts)?