# encoding=utf8
a = ["ÄiÌ£a"]
b = ["Äá»a"]
print(a) # ['\xc4\x90i\xcc\xa3a']
print(b) # ['\xc4\x90\xe1\xbb\x8ba']
print("Äá»a" in a) # False
print("Äá»a" in b) # True
# encoding=utf8
import unicodedata
a = ["ÄiÌ£a"]
b = ["Äá»a"]
print("Äá»a" in [unicodedata.normalize('NFC', i) for i in a])
print("Äá»a" in [unicodedata.normalize('NFC', i) for i in b])