Remove zero width space unicode character from Python string

You can encode it into ascii and ignore errors:

u'\u200cHealth & Fitness'.encode('ascii', 'ignore')

Output:

'Health & Fitness'

If you have a string that contains Unicode character, like

s = "Airports Council International \u2013 North America"

then you can try:

newString = (s.encode('ascii', 'ignore')).decode("utf-8")

and the output will be:

Airports Council International North America

Upvote if helps :)

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