Actually, it's more likely that the char you are grabbing is UTF-16 not
UTF-8 which is moving into the double byte...
* An assumption based on the following output:
u = u'\u2014'
s = u.encode(utf-16)
print(s)
■¶
s = u.encode(utf-32)
print(s)
■ ¶
s = u.encode(utf-16LE)
print(s)
¶
s =
I am trying to scrap text from a website using Python 2.7 in windows 8 and
i am getting this error ***UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap codec can't encode
character u'\u2014 in position 11231 character maps to undefined*
For starters, move away from Python 2 unless you have a good reason to use
Hi Dave,
you should set the correct encoding (maybe utf-8) in order to handle
data from web. You cannot handle unicode data with simple string, you
should encode to ASCII or manage data with the unicode type
Best
Cristian
Il 31/01/2015 23:44, Dave Angel ha scritto:
On 01/31/2015 08:37 AM,
On 02/02/2015 02:52 AM, Cristian Di Stefano wrote:
Hi Dave,
you should set the correct encoding (maybe utf-8) in order to handle
data from web. You cannot handle unicode data with simple string, you
should encode to ASCII or manage data with the unicode type
Best
Cristian
Please don't
Hi,
I am teaching myself programming in python and assistance with
UnicodeDecodeError
I am trying to scrap text from a website using Python 2.7 in windows 8 and
i am getting this error ***UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap codec can't encode
character u'\u2014 in position 11231 character maps to
On 01/31/2015 08:37 AM, J Mberia wrote:
Hi,
Welcome to Python tutor. Thanks for posting using text email, and for
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I am teaching myself programming in python and assistance with
UnicodeDecodeError
I am trying to scrap text from a
