utf8 silly question

[Catalin Constantin]

i have the following code:

c=chr(169)+" some text"

how can i utf8 encode the variable above ?
something like in php utf8_encode($var);?!

chr(169) is the &copy (c) sign !

10x for your help !

p.s.: i tryed using codecs, etc but always get an error message
like: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa9 in position 0...


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