Gnarlodious wrote: > Attempting to read a file containing Unicode characters such as ±: > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position > 5007: ordinal not in range(128) > > I did succeed by converting all the characters to HTML entities such > as "±", but I want the characters to be the actual font in the > source file. What am I doing wrong? My understanding is that ALL > strings in Py3 are unicode so... confused.
When opening the file, you need to specify the file encoding. If you don't, it defaults to ASCII (in your situation; the specific default depends on the environment). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
