Converting characters like '³' to Integer in Python

I have this character ‘³’ in my dataset that I’m processing on top of.

Generic Idea is to detect if a character is an integer, convert it into an integer and process on top of it.

>>> x = '³'
>>> x.isdigit() # Returns True
True

Python detects this character as a digit. But raises the following error when I try to convert it

>>> int(x)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '³'

I would like it if such characters could also be converted to integer, to ease my further processing

Not sure if this helps, but here is my locale info

>>> import locale
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('en_US', 'UTF-8')

>Solution :

You can use unicodedata and NFKC to convert it
here is a detailed code with some error handling

import unicodedata

x = '³'
try:
    regular_digit = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', x)
    integer_value = int(regular_digit)
    print(integer_value)
except ValueError:
    print(f"'{x}' is not a convertible superscript digit.")