I have a string say s = 'Chocolate Moelleux-Mxe8re'
When i am doing:
In [14]: unicode(s)
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UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
Similarly when i am trying to decode this by using s.decode()
it returns same error.
In [13]: s.decode()
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UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
How to decode such string into unicode.
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