Character encoding & the copyright symbol
Richard Brodie
R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Thu Aug 6 13:02:01 EDT 2009
"Robert Dailey" <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f64f9830-c416-41b1-a510-c1e486271b4e at g19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
> As you can see, I am trying to load the file with encoding 'cp1252'
> which, according to the python 3.1 docs, translates to windows-1252. I
> also tried 'latin_1', which translates to ISO-8859-1, but this did not
> work either. Am I doing something else wrong?
Probably it's just the debugging print that has a problem, and if you
opened an output file with an encoding specified it would be fine.
When you get a UnicodeEncodingError, it's conversion _from_
Unicode that has failed.
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