<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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?
Several different things are going on here. First, when you try to print a unicode string using str() or a similar function, Python is going to use the default encoding to render it. The default encoding is usually ASCII-7. Why it's trying to use Latin-1 in this case is somewhat of a mystery. The quote in front of the word MUST is a "smart quote", that is a curly quote, and it is not a valid character in either ASCII or Latin-1. Use Windows-1252 explicitly, and it should render properly. Alternatively use UTF-8, as one of the other posters suggested. Then it's up to whatever software you use to actually put the ink on the paper to render it properly, but that's a different issue. John Roth > > thanks > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
