title: Transform ascii to unicode
body: <p>I am not able to convert</p>
  
  <pre><code>'Schutzt\xc3\xbcren'.encode("utf-8")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the following to unicode, but cannot, getting the error</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I would like to get</p>
  
  <pre><code>'Schutztüren'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>as a result.</p>