Web scraping: How do I handle euro signs?
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So I'm trying to scrape prices of a product on a website, and their HTML looks like this:

`<div class="pricing_price">€ 12,99</div>`

Now I've wrote a xpath query that gets price, and it returns a string like this:

`â‚¬Â 12,99`.

If possible, I would like to just get the `12,99`. Or maybe just keep it as a `€` symbol. What are my options? Should I use regular expressions? Or are there better/easier solutions?