b64encode and unicode problem

[Max M]

Gabriel Rossetti skrev:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am trying to encode a string using b4encode and I get the following 
> error :
> 
>  >>> b64encode(u"Salut Pierre, comment ça va?")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/base64.py", line 53, in b64encode
>    encoded = binascii.b2a_base64(s)[:-1]
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in 
> position 22: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> If I remove the "u" infront of the string, it works. The problem is that 
> I in my program, the string is given to me un unicode/utf-8. I tried 
> several things, but I still get it, How can I get it to work, anybody 
> have any idea?

I have written about it here:

http://mxm-mad-science.blogspot.com/2008/03/python-unicode-lessons-from-school-of.html

The reason/solution for your problem is mentioned somewhere below the 
middle.


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