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Possible Duplicate: Python UnicodeDecodeError - Am I misunderstanding encode? I have a string that I'm trying to make safe for the unicode() function: >>> s = " foo “bar bar ” weasel" &...

Possible Duplicate: Python UnicodeDecodeError - Am I misunderstanding encode? I am having trouble printing some unicode symbols in Python like this: # encoding: utf-8 print u'ęėįųšįšū' When I try ...

I have this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "python_md5_cracker.py", line 27, in <module> m.update(line) TypeError: Unicode-objects must be encoded before hashing when I try ...

What could be causing this error when I try to insert a foreign character into the database? >>UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 0: ordinal not in ...

I run this snippet twice, in the Ubuntu terminal (encoding set to utf-8), once with ./test.py and then with ./test.py >out.txt: uni = u"\u001A\u0BC3\u1451\U0001D10C" print uni Without redirection ...

I'm getting really tired of trying to figure out why this code works in Python 2 and not in Python 3. I'm just trying to grab a page of json and then parse it. Here's the code in Python 2: import ...

I know I'm having a problem with a conversion from Unicode but I'm not sure where it's happening. I'm extracting data about a recent Eruopean trip from a directory of HTML files. Some of the ...

I have terminal.app set to accept utf-8 and in bash I can type unicode characters, copy and paste them, but if I start the python shell I can't and if I try to decode unicode I get errors: >>&...

I want my function to take an argument that could be an unicode object or a utf-8 encoded string. Inside my function, I want to convert the argument to unicode. I have something like this: def ...

Consider this function: def escape(text): print repr(text) escaped_chars = [] for c in text: try: c = c.decode('ascii') except UnicodeDecodeError: ...

it works fine on 64 bit machines but for some reason will not work on python 2.4.3 on a 32-bit instance. i get the error 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 76-79: invalid data for the code ...

Update : I found the answer here : Python UnicodeDecodeError - Am I misunderstanding encode? I needed to explicitly decode my incoming file into Unicode when I read it. Because it had characters ...

I happened to fail to set character encoding in Python terminal on Windows. According to official guide, it's a piece of cake: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Ok, now testing: print 'Русский' Produces piece ...

I have hebrew data such that \xe0 is the hebrew aleph, and wish to convert it into utf-8

I've tried no less then 5 different "solutions" and i cant get it to work, please help. This is the error 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (...