code: def convert_to_unicode(text: Union[str, bytes]) -> str:
      """Converts `text` to Unicode (if it's not already), assuming utf-8 input."""
      if isinstance(text, str):
          return text
      elif isinstance(text, bytes):
          return text.decode("utf-8", "ignore")
      else:
          raise ValueError("Unsupported type: {}".format(type(text)))
  
imports: import collections
  import io
  import pickle
  import unicodedata
  from typing import List, Union
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: convert_to_unicode(text) and returns: text, text