Return to Question

I'm having a few issues trying to encode a string to UTF-8. I've tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:

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

This is my string:

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ 

I don't see what's going wrong, any idea?

Edit: The problem is that printing the string as it is does not show properly. Also, this error when I try to convert it:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:13:53) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = '(\xef\xbd\xa1\xef\xbd\xa5\xcf\x89\xef\xbd\xa5\xef\xbd\xa1)\xef\xbe\x89' >>> s1 = s.decode('utf-8') >>> print s1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-5: ordinal not in range(128) 

I'm having a few issues trying to encode a string to UTF-8. I've tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:

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

This is my string:

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ 

I don't see what's going wrong, any idea?

Edit: The problem is that printing the string as it is does not show properly. Also, this error when I try to convert it:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:13:53) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = '(\xef\xbd\xa1\xef\xbd\xa5\xcf\x89\xef\xbd\xa5\xef\xbd\xa1)\xef\xbe\x89' >>> s1 = s.decode('utf-8') >>> print s1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-5: ordinal not in range(128) 

I'm having a few issues trying to encode a string to utf-8. I've tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:

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

This is my string:

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ 

I don't see what's going wrong, any idea?

Edit: The problem is that pritnting the string as it is does not show properly. Also, this error when I try convert it too:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:13:53) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = '(\xef\xbd\xa1\xef\xbd\xa5\xcf\x89\xef\xbd\xa5\xef\xbd\xa1)\xef\xbe\x89' >>> s1 = s.decode('utf-8') >>> print s1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-5: ordin  al not in range(128) 

I'm having a few issues trying to encode a string to UTF-8. I've tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:

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

This is my string:

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ 

I don't see what's going wrong, any idea?

Edit: The problem is that printing the string as it is does not show properly. Also, this error when I try to convert it:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:13:53) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = '(\xef\xbd\xa1\xef\xbd\xa5\xcf\x89\xef\xbd\xa5\xef\xbd\xa1)\xef\xbe\x89' >>> s1 = s.decode('utf-8') >>> print s1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-5: ordinal not in range(128) 

I'm having a few issues trying to encode a string to utf-8. I've tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:

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

This is my string:

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ 

I don't see what's going wrong, any idea?

I'm having a few issues trying to encode a string to utf-8. I've tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:

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

This is my string:

(｡･ω･｡)ﾉ 

I don't see what's going wrong, any idea?

Edit: The problem is that pritnting the string as it is does not show properly. Also, this error when I try convert it too:

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:13:53) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> s = '(\xef\xbd\xa1\xef\xbd\xa5\xcf\x89\xef\xbd\xa5\xef\xbd\xa1)\xef\xbe\x89' >>> s1 = s.decode('utf-8') >>> print s1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-5: ordin al not in range(128)