Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013.04.29 04:47, c...@isbd.net wrote:
> > If I understand correctly the encode() is saying that it can't
> > understand the data in the html because there's a character 0xc3 in it.
> > I *think* this means that the é is encoded in UTF-8 already in the
> > incoming data stream (should be as my system is wholly UTF-8 as far as I
> > know and I created the directory name).
> You can verify that your filesystem is set to use UTF-8 with
> sys.getfilesystemencoding().
> If it returns 'ascii', then your locale settings
> are incorrect.
>
chris$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.getfilesystemencoding()
'UTF-8'
>>>
So I am set up right for UTF-8.
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