[Tutor] string encoding

[Rick Pasotto]

I'm using BeautifulSoup to process a webpage. One of the fields has a
unicode character in it. (It's the 'registered trademark' symbol.) When
I try to write this string to another file I get this error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 31-32: ordinal not in range(128)

In the interpreter the  offending string portion shows as: 'Realtors\xc2\xae'.

How can I deal with this single string? The rest of the document works
fine.

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