title: Make an octal to UTF-8 converter (english alphabet only). What are octal scaped characters
body: <p>I'm doing a discord bot in python (using discord.py API) and have been make it work with hex, morse and base64/32 strings, I'm now trying to make it decode octal strings.</p>
  
  <p>I've been doing some research and found this post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43675989/python-convert-octal-to-non-english-text-from-file">Python - Convert Octal to non-English Text from file</a> and other similar posts that try to convert non-english characters with something called 'octal escape characters'. I understand what an escaped character is, I know what an octal character is, but what I don't know is what those escaped characters do.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, I just need it to read a plain octal string and decode it to words. There are no foreign characters involved, so I really hope there is an easier way to do it</p>
  
  <p>110 145 154 154 157 40 151 156 164 145 162 156 145 164 for example should be translated to 'hello internet'</p>
  
  <p>I found other posts with english charaters only but they are all for java. This is what i've got so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    #Bot is listening for message. If it finds one message which starts with !decodeoctal It'll execute the inside of the conditional (the decoder itself)
      if message.content.startswith('!decodeoctal'):
  
          #The content of the message is now a list inside a variable called msglist               
          msglist = message.content.split()
  
          #The first item of the list (the one that contains the !decodeoctal string) is discarded leaving the rest of list, that contains the octal string intact
          msglist = msglist[1:]                       
              try:    
                  #Code dor decoding the string goes here                                                 
              except:                         
                  msg = '''Decoding error.'''
                  await client.send_message(message.channel, msg)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code is one level indented because it goes inside another if statement. Any ideas?</p>