b64encode and unicode problem

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Max M wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Thank you, it's a bit clearer now, I thought unicode and utf8 were 
synonyms, but  from what I understood unicode is sort of like bytecode, 
and utf8/latin1/etc would be like a asm dialect that bytecode would be 
translated to.

Thank you,
Gabriel

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