UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: oridinal not in range(128)

[Doru-Catalin Togea]

Hi!

The following code works well (as expected) when the "tmplText" variable
contains only english characters. 
	
f = open(htmlPrefix + htmlFileName, 'w')
f.write(tmplText)
f.close()

The same code fails when "tmplText" comes from an XML files which contains
norwegian characters (latin-1 extension), like ø, in the data, not
in the tags, with the following error message:
	
Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "./python/genh1.py", line 335, in ?
		f.write(tmplText)
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: oridinal not in range(128)

I have found the same behaviour for the builtin
"print" function. print() works well with norwegian text in the
Interactive Window of PythonWin IDE.

What kind of strings do write() and print() handle? Hopefully I can
convert my strings to that type.

I am running ActiveState Python 2.2 on win 2000 Pro.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Catalin



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