On Apr 8, 11:04 am, "Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> That's because you need to re-learn some things.
Apparently so, every little item is a lesson. Thank you.
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Gnarlodious wrote:
> On Apr 8, 9:14 am, "Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
>
>> When opening the file, you need to specify the file encoding.
>
> OK, I had tried this:
>
> open(path, 'r').read().encode('utf-8')
No, when *opening* the file, you need to specify the encoding:
open(path, 'r', encoding='utf
On Apr 8, 9:14 am, "Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> When opening the file, you need to specify the file encoding.
OK, I had tried this:
open(path, 'r').read().encode('utf-8')
however I get error
TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
I had assumed a Unicode string was a Unicode
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 charact
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 th
