> Using text.encode("ascii", "ignore") should absolutely work. You could also > just write the file in UTF-8 if you don't absolutely need ascii by using > text.encode("utf-8"). > > Hugo You're right. It does work. I forgot to assign the result to a variable: text = text.encode("ascii", "ignore") Thanks.
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