title: Unsupported characters in input
body: <p>I want to assign a string of characters to a variable but it says</p>
  
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  <p>I have a string that i want to assign to a variable</p>
  
  <pre><code>d="stunning:/ËstÊnÉªÅ/"
  Unsupported characters in input
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  <p>or</p>
  
  <pre><code>word="stuning:/ˈstraɪkɪŋ/"
  Unsupported characters in input
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  <p>so basically the interpreter doesn't allow me to assign it to a variable, so I can't code on it.</p>
  
  <p>How can I extract, delete those characters from the text, or is there anything to do , so python will support this kind of input.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to converted it into others format like ansi, utf, etc. but without success.</p>
  
  <p>P.S.: I'm using python 2.7</p>