David Bear wrote:
> feedp.entry.title.decode('utf-8', 'xmlcharrefreplace')
>
> I assume it would take any unicode character and 'do the right thing',
> including replacing higher ordinal chars with xml entity refs. But I still
> get
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in
> position 31: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> Clearly, I completely do not understand how unicode is working here. Can
> anyone enlighten me?
It sounds like you already have Unicode. Notice that you are trying to
decode but the error is for encoding.
In [17]: u'\u2019'.decode('utf-8')
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py",
line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode
character u'\u2019' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
decode() goes towards unicode, encode() goes away from unicode.
Kent
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