UnicodeEncode Error ?

Lie Ryan lie.1296 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 11:53:27 EDT 2009


Rama Vadakattu wrote:
> While doing the below
> 
> 1) fetch  html page
> 2) extract title using BeatifulSoup
> 3) Save into the database.
> 
> iam getting the below error (at the bottom).
> 
> Few observations which i had:
>      1) type of variable which holds this title is <class
> 'BeautifulSoup.NavigableString'>
>      2) iam getting this problem when the title has character whose
> ordinal value > 128
> 
> I searched in google and tried various suggestions but none of them is
> working.And also i couldnot able to understand the rootcause for such
> a kind of behaviour.

What's the title of the feed. I guess it contains non-ASCII character. 
Try encoding the title with a proper encoding that can handle the 
title's character set (utf-8 is a good choice), then save it again to 
the database.



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