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Old 31-Jan-2008, 14:48
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Python Unicode problem

Hi!

I would like to read a file, which may or may not contain non-ascii characters such as umloats, and then output it in an ascii format.

I have tried using someword.encode('ascii','replace'), but it reports

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

Any suggestions?

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Old 31-Jan-2008, 18:48
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Re: Python Unicode problem

Are you using the Unicode types of Python? You might want to take a look at these:
http://www.reportlab.com/i18n/python..._tutorial.html
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode
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Re: Python Unicode problem

I thought that `encode' WAS a function of a unicode type?
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Re: Python Unicode problem

It is. Take a look at the second link I gave. About halfway down the page it shows the encode method and gives an error example that sounds exactly like what you encountered.
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Re: Python Unicode problem

Yes, I had seen that: in fact it is EXACTLY my error. Unfortunately, I AM using 'replace' and STILL getting the same thing!

Code:
>>> u.encode('ascii')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\ua000' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> u.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
'abcd'
>>> u.encode('ascii', 'replace')
'?abcd?'
 
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