According to the documentation, the following command
'Brückenspinne'.encode("utf-8",errors='replace')
Should give me the byte sequenceb'Br??ckenspinne'. However, unicode characters are not replaced but encoded nevertheless :
b'Br\xc3\xbcckenspinne'
Can you tell me how I actually eliminate unicode characters ? (I use replace for testing purposes, I intend to use 'xmlcharrefreplace' later. To be totally honest, I want to convert the unicode characters to their xmlcharref, keeping everything as a string).
Thank you.