Strange character inserted with degrees character

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I have a pretty simple function to get an engineering unit based on a description,

def getEngUnits(desc):
		eu = desc
		if "temp" in desc or "heat" in desc or "cool" in desc:
			eu = "°C"
		elif "pressure" in desc:
			eu = "kPa"
		return eu

Then these go into a dataset, and instead of “°C” its showing “°C”. Anyone know why this is being inserted? I’ve tried with single quotes around it in the assignment, but no luck.

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That suggests that some part of your setup isn’t handling encoding like the other parts. I make an effort to use UTF-8 everywhere to make sure this doesn’t happen.

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° is outside of 8-bit ASCII, so you need to tell Python this is Unicode by doing this:
eu = u"°C"

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Great, thanks guys! Just tried that and it works great.

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