encoding error in python 27
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Fri Feb 22 10:40:47 EST 2013
Hala Gamal wrote:
> my code works well with english file but when i use text file
> encodede"utf-8" "my file contain some arabic letters" it doesn't work. my
> code:
> with codecs.open("tt.txt",encoding='utf-8') as txtfile:
Try encoding="utf-8-sig" in the above to remove the byte order mark (BOM)
upon decoding, see
http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/codecs.html#module-encodings.utf_8_sig
That should prevent
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in
> position 0: invalid decimal Unicode string
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