title: Python: Converting from ISO-8859-1/latin1 to UTF-8
body: <p>I have this string that has been decoded from Quoted-printable to ISO-8859-1 with the email module. This gives me strings like "\xC4pple" which would correspond to "Äpple" (Apple in Swedish).
  However, I can't convert those strings to UTF-8.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; apple = "\xC4pple"
  &gt;&gt;&gt; apple
  '\xc4pple'
  &gt;&gt;&gt; apple.encode("UTF-8")
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 0: ordinal not in     range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>