a unicode question?

[John Machin]

What do you mean by "ansi string"?

Here is a superficially not-unreasonable answer to your more specific
question:

# >>> s1 = u'\xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa\xca\xaf\xbb\xaf(600028) '
# >>> s2 = '\xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa\xca\xaf\xbb\xaf(600028) '
# >>> s3 = s1.encode('latin1')
# >>> s2 == s3
# True

But what are you really trying to achieve? Where does your Unicode data
come from? What ranges of characters do you expect it to contain? You
need to crunch it into an 8-bit representation because ... what?