Hi,
"Erik Max Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 7stud wrote:
>
>> Based on this example and the error:
>>
>> -----
>> u_str = u"abc\u9999"
>> print u_str
>>
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u9999' in
>> position 3: ordinal not in range(128)
>> ------
>>
>> it looks like when I try to display the string, the ascii decoder
>> parses each character in the string and fails when it can't convert a
>> numerical code that is higher than 127 to a character, i.e. the
>> character \u9999.
>
> If you try to print a Unicode string, then Python will attempt to first
> encode it using the default encoding for that file. Here, it's apparent
> the default encoding is 'ascii', so it attempts to encode it into ASCII,
> which it can't do, hence the exception.
If you want to change the default encoding of your stdout and stderr, you
can do something like this:
import codecs, sys
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)
sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stderr)
After doing this, print u_str will work as expected (when using an utf-8
terminal)
- Sander
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