Unicode confusion

**Tim Cook** · Jul 14 '08, 04:45 PM

Hi All,

I'm not clear on how to use the unicode module.

I need to be able to use certain characters such as the degree symbol
and the mu symbol, i.e.: units = <"Â°">

if I say units=unicode(" Â°"). I get
UnicodeDecodeEr ror: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)

If I try x=unicode.decod e(x,'utf-8'). I get
TypeError: descriptor 'decode' requires a 'unicode' object but received
a 'str'

What is the correct way to interpret these symbols that come to me as a
string?

Thanks,
Tim

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