Then you should write a minimal snippet of code, including an appropriate sample of your data, to show us how you tried it, what you expected to get, and what you actually got.

Encode works, and anyone dealing with non-ascii character data is likely to find it important in their work. If you had no success with it, you are probably working under some simple misconception about your data or what the module actually does or how to use it. Show us what you tried.