I cut from Sam Python Phrasebook "Converting Unicode to Local Strings"
import string locStr = "El "
uniStr = u"Ni\u00F1o"
print uniStr.encode('utf-8')
print uniStr.encode('utf-16')
print uniStr.encode('iso-8859-1')
#Combine local and unicode results
#in new unicode string
newStr = locStr+uniStr
print newStr.encode('iso-8859-1')
#ascii will error because character '\xF1'
#is out of range
asciiStr = newStr.encode('iso-8859-1')
asciiStr =asciiStr.translate(\
string.maketrans('\xF1','n'), '')
print asciiStr.encode('ascii')
print newStr.encode('ascii')
unicode_str.py
Niño
ÿN|I|ñ|o
Niño
El Niño
El Nino
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\books\python\CH2\code\unicode_str.py",
line 19, in ?
print newStr.encode('ascii')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character u'\xf1' in position 5: ordinal not in
range(128)
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:16:07AM -0700, erikcw wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to parse an email message, but am running into this
> exception.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "wa.py", line 336, in ?
> main()
> File "wa.py", line 332, in main
> print out['msg']
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd6' in
> position 238: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> How can I decode/encode this string to print to stdout and send again
> in another email? Do I have to know what language the email is in?
>
> Thanks!
> Erik
>
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