[Tutor] unicode, utf-8 problem again

[wesley chun]

>>  But, I still get this error:
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>> ...
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in
>> position 76: ordinal not in range(128)
>>  What am I missing?
>
> Take a read through http://evanjones.ca/python-utf8.html which will give you
> insight as to how you should be reading and processing your files.


in a similar vein, i wrote a shorter blog post awhile ago that focuses
specifically on string processing:
http://wesc.livejournal.com/1743.html ... in it, i also describe the
correct way of thinking about strings in these contexts... the
difference between a string that represents data vs. a "string" which
is made up of various bytes, as in binary files.

hope this helps!
-- wesley
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