New submission from Sharmila Sivakumar:
I try to load the data in the testdata.txt file into a dom.
I tried
import xml.dom.minidom as dom
data = open('testdata.txt','r').read()
mydom = dom.parseString(data)
I get the following error
>>> mydom.firstChild.childNodes
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2022' in
position 18: ordinal not in range(128)
So I tried decoding the data and using it but it failed again.
>>> mydom2 = dom.parseString(data.decode('utf-8'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line
1925, in parseString
return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py",
line 942, in parseString
return builder.parseString(string)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py",
line 223, in parseString
parser.Parse(string, True)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u014d' in
position 173: ordinal not in range(128)
I am willing to fix this myself if I'm given the permission.
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components: Interpreter Core, Unicode, XML
files: testdata.txt
messages: 56511
nosy: sharmila
severity: normal
status: open
title: xml.dom.minidom not able to handle utf-8 data
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file8558/testdata.txt
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claws</dtrn>
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⢠<b>dragonish</b> <i><c><co>adjective</co></c></i></xml>
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