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[MRAB]

someone wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> how can I replace '—' sign from string? Or do split at that character?
> Getting unicode error if I try to do it:
> 
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x97 in position
> 1: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> 
> Thanks, Pet
> 
> script is # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

It sounds like you're mixing bytestrings with Unicode strings. I can't
be any more helpful because you haven't shown the code.