title: help with UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'Phase \u2013 II', 6, 7, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
body: <p>having problem with 
  UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'Phase \u2013 II', 6, 7, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
  Basically what I am doing here is reading the value from excel sheet 
  and sheet contain address in this format </p>
  
  <pre><code>Phase- II
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So wanted to know how to change`</p>
  
  <pre><code>somestring = u'Phase \u2013 II'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to str</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>
  
  <p>`</p>