UnicodeDecodeError
Ken Seehart
ken at seehart.com
Sat Jul 21 17:07:24 EDT 2007
Um, never mind. The recent unicode conversation gave me my answer :-)
unicode(s, 'Windows-1252')
Ken Seehart wrote:
> I get this whenever I encounter a non-ascii character in a non-unicode
> string:
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd1 in position 23:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> The string in question is "... ESPA\xd1OL ..."
>
> I completely understand why I get the error, and my solution will be to
> simply convert to unicode (since the code that uses the string is
> unicode ready).
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find a mapping from this
> particular extended ascii code (where \xd1 is Ñ), to the corresponding
> unicode characters.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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