title: Special chars in Python
body: <p>i have to use special chars in my python-application.
  For example: ƃ
  I have information like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>U+0183 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH TOPBAR
  
  General Character Properties
  
  In Unicode since: 1.1
  Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase
  
  Various Useful Representations
  
  UTF-8: 0xC6 0x83
  UTF-16: 0x0183
  
  C octal escaped UTF-8: \306\203
  XML decimal entity: &amp;# 387;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when i just pust symbols into python-script i get an error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Non-ASCII character '\xc8' ...
    How can i use it in strings for my application?</p>
  </blockquote>