UnicodeEncodeError - a bit out of my element...

[erikcw]

On Apr 11, 11:35 am, liupeng <liup... at 18mail.cn> wrote:
> I cut from Sam Python Phrasebook
> "Converting Unicode to Local Strings"
>
> import string locStr = "El "
> uniStr = u"Ni\u00F1o"
> print uniStr.encode('utf-8')
> print uniStr.encode('utf-16')
> print uniStr.encode('iso-8859-1')
> #Combine local and unicode results
> #in new unicode string
> newStr = locStr+uniStr
> print newStr.encode('iso-8859-1')
> #ascii will error because character '\xF1'
> #is out of range
> asciiStr = newStr.encode('iso-8859-1')
> asciiStr =asciiStr.translate(\
>     string.maketrans('\xF1','n'), '')
> print asciiStr.encode('ascii')
> print newStr.encode('ascii')
>
> unicode_str.py
>
> Niño
> ÿN|I|ñ|o
> Niño
> El Niño
> El Nino
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\books\python\CH2\code\unicode_str.py",
> line 19, in ?
>     print newStr.encode('ascii')
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
>  character u'\xf1' in position 5: ordinal not in
>  range(128)
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:16:07AM -0700, erikcw wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm trying to parse an email message, but am running into this
> > exception.
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "wa.py", line 336, in ?
> >     main()
> >   File "wa.py", line 332, in main
> >     print out['msg']
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd6' in
> > position 238: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> > How can I decode/encode this string to print to stdout and send again
> > in another email?  Do I have to know what language the email is in?
>
> > Thanks!
> > Erik
>
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I used the .encode("utf-8") method on the string and it fixed
everything!  Thanks for your help!