Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi, > > I have bug in my code, which results in the same error has this one: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/295653 > {{{ > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 765, in emit > self.stream.write(fs % msg.encode("UTF-8")) > .. > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 8: > ordinal not in range(128) > }}} > > I run Python 2.6. In SVN the code is the same (StreamHandler ... def emit...): > http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/logging/__init__.py?revision=72507&view=markup > > I think msg.encode("UTF-8", 'backslashreplace') would be better here. > > What do you think? > > Should I fill a bugreport? > > Thomas > >
I think you have to decode it first using the strings original encoding whether that be cp1252 or mac-roman or any of the other 8-bit encodings. Once that's done, you can encode in UTF-8 --David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
