Hello,
I am having great problems writing norwegian characters æøå to file
from a python application. My (simplified) scenario is as follows:
1. I have a web form where the user can enter his name.
2. I use the cgi module module to get to the input from the user:
....
name = form["name"].value
3. The name is stored in a file
fileH = open(namefile , "a")
fileH.write("name:%s \n" % name)
fileH.close()
Now, this works very well indeed as long the users have 'ascii' names,
however when someone enters a name with one of the norwegian characters
æøå - it breaks at the write() statement.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position
....
Now - I understand that the ascii codec can't be used to decode the
particular characters, however my attempts of specifying an alternative
encoding have all failed.
I have tried variants along the line:
fileH = codecs.open(namefile , "a" , "latin-1") / fileH =
open(namefile , "a")
fileH.write(name) / fileH.write(name.encode("latin-1"))
It seems *whatever* I do the Python interpreter fails to see my pledge
for an alternative encoding, and fails with the dreaded
UnicodeDecodeError.
Any tips on this would be *highly* appreciated.
Joakim
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