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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _convert_to_unicode(string):
 """This method should work with both Python 2 and 3 with the caveat that they need to be compiled with wide unicode character support. If there isn't wide unicode character support it'll blow up with a warning. """

    codepoints = []
    for character in string.split('-'):
        if character in BLACKLIST_UNICODE:
            next

        codepoints.append(
            '\U{0:0>8}'.format(character).decode('unicode-escape')
        )

    return codepoints