Problem reading file with umlauts

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Claus Hausberger wrote:
> Thanks a lot. Now I am one step further but I get another strange error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./read.py", line 12, in <module>
>     of.write(text)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> according to google ufeff has something to do with byte order.
> 
> I use an Linux system, maybe this helps to find the error.
> 
'text' contains Unicode, but you're writing it to a file that's not
opened for Unicode. Either open the output file for Unicode:

     of = codecs.open("umlaut-out.txt", "w", encoding="latin1")

or encode the text before writing:

     text = text.encode("latin1")

(I'm assuming you want the output file to be in Latin1.)

> 
>> Claus Hausberger wrote:
>>
>>> I have a text file with is encoding in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1). I can't
>>> change that as I do not create those files myself. I have to read
>>> those files and convert the umlauts like ö to stuff like &oumol; as
>>> the text files should become html files.
>> umlaut-in.txt:
>> ----
>> This file is contains data in the unicode
>> character set and is encoded with utf-8.
>> Viele Röhre. Macht spaß!  Tsüsch!
>>
>>
>> umlaut-in.txt hexdump:
>> ----
>> 000000: 54 68 69 73 20 66 69 6C  65 20 69 73 20 63 6F 6E This file is con
>> 000010: 74 61 69 6E 73 20 64 61  74 61 20 69 6E 20 74 68 tains data in th
>> 000020: 65 20 75 6E 69 63 6F 64  65 0D 0A 63 68 61 72 61 e unicode..chara
>> 000030: 63 74 65 72 20 73 65 74  20 61 6E 64 20 69 73 20 cter set and is
>> 000040: 65 6E 63 6F 64 65 64 20  77 69 74 68 20 75 74 66 encoded with utf
>> 000050: 2D 38 2E 0D 0A 56 69 65  6C 65 20 52 C3 B6 68 72 -8...Viele R..hr
>> 000060: 65 2E 20 4D 61 63 68 74  20 73 70 61 C3 9F 21 20 e. Macht spa..!
>> 000070: 20 54 73 C3 BC 73 63 68  21 0D 0A 00 00 00 00 00  Ts..sch!.......
>>
>>
>> umlaut.py:
>> ----
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> import codecs
>> text=codecs.open("umlaut-in.txt",encoding="utf-8").read()
>> text=text.replace(u"ö",u"oe")
>> text=text.replace(u"ß",u"ss")
>> text=text.replace(u"ü",u"ue")
>> of=open("umlaut-out.txt","w")
>> of.write(text)
>> of.close()
>>
>>
>> umlaut-out.txt:
>> ----
>> This file is contains data in the unicode
>> character set and is encoded with utf-8.
>> Viele Roehre. Macht spass!  Tsuesch!
>>
>>
>> umlaut-out.txt hexdump:
>> ----
>> 000000: 54 68 69 73 20 66 69 6C  65 20 69 73 20 63 6F 6E This file is con
>> 000010: 74 61 69 6E 73 20 64 61  74 61 20 69 6E 20 74 68 tains data in th
>> 000020: 65 20 75 6E 69 63 6F 64  65 0D 0D 0A 63 68 61 72 e unicode...char
>> 000030: 61 63 74 65 72 20 73 65  74 20 61 6E 64 20 69 73 acter set and is
>> 000040: 20 65 6E 63 6F 64 65 64  20 77 69 74 68 20 75 74  encoded with ut
>> 000050: 66 2D 38 2E 0D 0D 0A 56  69 65 6C 65 20 52 6F 65 f-8....Viele Roe
>> 000060: 68 72 65 2E 20 4D 61 63  68 74 20 73 70 61 73 73 hre. Macht spass
>> 000070: 21 20 20 54 73 75 65 73  63 68 21 0D 0D 0A 00 00 !  Tsuesch!.....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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