I had this problem recently. It turned out that something had encoded a unicode string into utf-8. When I found the culprit and fixed the underlying design issue, it went away.
John Roth
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I have a mysql database with characters like   » in it. I'm
trying to write a python script to remove these, but I'm having a
really hard time.
These strings are coming out as type 'str' not 'unicode' so I tried to just
record[4].replace('Â', '')but this does nothing. However the following code works
#!/usr/bin/python
s = 'aaaaa  aaa'
print type(s)
print s
print s.find('Â')This returns <type 'str'> aaaaa  aaa 6
The other odd thing is that the  character shows up as two spaces if I print it to the terminal from mysql, but it shows up as  when I print from the simple script above. What am I doing wrong?
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