[Kivy] A question about encoding

[Exsul1]

I had to add .encode('utf-8') to the end of a string containing vowels with macrons (ā and ē) to prevent my Kivy app from crashing, but these characters are not rendered properly in the app now. ē appears as \xc4\x93 and the string has been converted into a bytes literal. How do I prevent this?

[deanhystad]

If you provide some code and the actual error text when you exclude the .encode('utf-8) you might get some responses. As is your question is too nebulous