[web2py] Re: UnicodeDecodeError: \'ascii\' codec can\'t decode byte

2012-10-11 Thread Derek
Just running that in Python I get an error. >>("Número de serie: "+"100").decode("utf8").encode("latin1") UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 1: invalid start byte I noticed that first line: #coding: utf8 ú - this is a latin1 character, so you have an invalid p

[web2py] Re: UnicodeDecodeError: \'ascii\' codec can\'t decode byte

2012-10-11 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
You have data in the database that is binary but not unicode. What do you want to do with it? You cannot decode('utf8'). Perhaps they already in latin1? On Thursday, 11 October 2012 06:47:35 UTC-5, Manu Mora wrote: > > Hello. > I have a problem with code and decode chars. This is my code: > > #