How to properly decode or encode a string in python? -

i have following string giving me following error when try upload database:

string_from_source = 'stringÊ' string_in_dataset = 'string\xe6'

when try decode or encode, following error:

unicodedecodeerror: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

for example, error

'string\xe6'.encode() 'string\xe6'.decode() 'string\xe6'.encode('utf-8')

i've tried:

'string\xe6'.decode('utf-8') unicodedecodeerror: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 17: unexpected end of data

is there way eliminate type of error once , all? want exclude special characters.

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