[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using feedparser to parse the following: > > <div class="indent text">Adv: Termite Inspections! Jenny Moyer welcomes > you to her HomeFinderResource.com TM A "MUST See &hellip;</div> > > I'm receiveing the following error when i try to print the feedparser > parsing of the above text: > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in > position 86: ordinal not in range(256) > > Why is this happening and where does the problem lie?
it seems that the unicode character 0x201c isn't part of the latin-1 charset, see: "LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK" <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/201c/index.htm> try to encode the feedparser output to UTF-8 instead, or use the "replace" option for the encode() method. >>> c = u'\u201c' >>> c u'\u201c' >>> c.encode('utf-8') '\xe2\x80\x9c' >>> print c.encode('utf-8') ok, let's try replace >>> c.encode('latin-1', 'replace') '?' using "replace" will not throw an error, but it will replace the offending characther with a question mark. HTH. -- deelan <http://www.deelan.com/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
