demo_ref_string_encode2.py:
C:\Users\My Name>python demo_string_encode2.py
b'My name is St\\xe5le'
b'My name is Stle'
b'My name is St\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}le'
b'My name is St?le'
b'My name is Ståle'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "demo_ref_string_encode2,py", line 8, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe5\ in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)