title: What is the difference between UTF8-in literal and unicode point?
body: <p>I came a cross this <a href="http://utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=1408&amp;number=128&amp;utf8=string-literal" rel="noreferrer">website</a> which show the Unicode table.</p>
  
  <p>when I print the letter 'ספר':</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; x = 'ספר'
  &gt;&gt;&gt; x
  '\xd7\xa1\xd7\xa4\xd7\xa8'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this characters <code>'\xd7\xa1\xd7\xa4\xd7\xa8'</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I think that python encode the word 'ספר' with utf-8 Unicode, because it's the default, right?</p>
  
  <p>but when I run this code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; x = u'ספר'
  &gt;&gt;&gt; x
  u'\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this <code>u'\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8'</code>, which is a Unicode point, right?</p>
  
  <p>How to convert from utf8-literal to Unicode point?</p>