<s>[INST] Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols) How do you convert a Unicode string (containing extra characters like Â£ $, etc.) into a Python string?
 [/INST] title = u"KlÃ¼ft skrÃ¤ms infÃ¶r pÃ¥ fÃ©dÃ©ral Ã©lectoral groÃe"
import unicodedata
unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', title).encode('ascii','ignore')
'Kluft skrams infor pa federal electoral groe'

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