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diff --git a/pendulum/utils/_compat.py b/pendulum/utils/_compat.py
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+import sys
+
+
+PY2 = sys.version_info < (3, 0)
+PY36 = sys.version_info >= (3, 6)
+PYPY = hasattr(sys, "pypy_version_info")
+
+_HAS_FOLD = PY36
+
+
+try:  # Python 2
+    long = long
+    unicode = unicode
+    basestring = basestring
+except NameError:  # Python 3
+    long = int
+    unicode = str
+    basestring = str
+
+
+def decode(string, encodings=None):
+    if not PY2 and not isinstance(string, bytes):
+        return string
+
+    if PY2 and isinstance(string, unicode):
+        return string
+
+    encodings = encodings or ["utf-8", "latin1", "ascii"]
+
+    for encoding in encodings:
+        try:
+            return string.decode(encoding)
+        except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+            pass
+
+    return string.decode(encodings[0], errors="ignore")
+
+
+def encode(string, encodings=None):
+    if not PY2 and isinstance(string, bytes):
+        return string
+
+    if PY2 and isinstance(string, str):
+        return string
+
+    encodings = encodings or ["utf-8", "latin1", "ascii"]
+
+    for encoding in encodings:
+        try:
+            return string.encode(encoding)
+        except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+            pass
+
+    return string.encode(encodings[0], errors="ignore")