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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 encode_string(self, value):
 """Convert ASCII, Latin-1 or UTF-8 to pure Unicode"""

        if not isinstance(value, str): return value
        try:
            return unicode(value, 'utf-8')
        except: # really, this should throw an exception.
                # in the interest of not breaking current
                # systems, however:
            arr = []
            for ch in value:
                arr.append(unichr(ord(ch)))
            return u"".join(arr)