Remove non-ASCII characters from a string using python / django

Question

I have a string of HTML stored in a database. Unfortunately it contains characters such as ® I want to replace these characters by their HTML equivalent, either in the DB it

Answer 1

There's a much simpler answer to this at https://stackoverflow.com/a/18430817/5100481

To remove non-ASCII characters from a string, s, use:

s = s.encode('ascii',errors='ignore')

Then convert it from bytes back to a string using:

s = s.decode()

This all using Python 3.6