[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually that's what I tried to do, for example:
> outputString = myString.encode('iso-8859-1','ignore')
>
> However, I always get such messages (the character, that's causing problems
> varies, but its always higher than 127 ofc...)
>
> 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 51: ordinal not in
> range(128)
>
> It doesn't matter what encoding I use (tried 'utf-8' 'utf-16' 'latin_1' and
> the iso one). The debugger is showing all the special characters (from french
> and german language) so I'm wondering why there's still the message about the
> 'ascii' codec...
>
> Would that mean that the string "myString" is an ascii-string or what?
That's a *decode* error. If myString is a str object, it has to be
*decoded* before it can be *encoded* to ISO-8859-1 or whatever you want,
and it's defaulting to ASCII.
This page may help:
<http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about-python-and-unicode>
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