title: How to get readable unicode string from single bibtex entry field in python script
body: <p>Suppose you have a .bib file containing bibtex-formatted entries. I want to extract the &quot;title&quot; field from an entry, and then format it to a readable unicode string.</p>
  <p>For example, if the entry was:</p>
  <pre><code>@article{mypaper,
      author = {myself},
      title = {A very nice {title} with annoying {symbols} like {\^{a}}}
  }
  </code></pre>
  <p>what I want to extract is the string:</p>
  <pre><code>A very nice title with annoying symbols like â
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am currently trying to use the <code>pybtex</code> package, but I cannot figure out how to do it. The command-line utility <code>pybtex-format</code> does a good job in converting full .bib files, but I need to do this inside a script and for single title entries.</p>