Hi, What is the encoding of the file1 you're reading from? I just ran tests on my machine (OS X) with both python2.5 and 2.6 and was able to read from a file containing: "život je lep"
The file is UTF-8 encoded. >>> data = open("test.txt").read() >>> data '\xc5\xbeivot je lep.' >>> f = open("test2.txt", "wb") >>> f.write(data) >>> f.close() mac-alex:~ alex$ file test.txt test.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text, with no line terminators mac-alex:~ alex$ file test2.txt test2.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text, with no line terminators mac-alex:~ alex$ Files test.txt and test2.txt are identical. Regards, alex. 2008/10/8 gigs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Benjamin wrote: >> >> On Oct 8, 12:49 pm, Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I have big .txt file which i want to read, process and write to another >>> .txt file. >>> I have done script for that, but im having problem with croatian >>> characters >>> (Š,Đ,Ž,Č,Ć). >> >> Can you show us what you have so far? >> >>> How can I read/write from/to file in utf-8 encoding? >> >> import codecs >> data = codecs.open("my-utf8-file.txt").read() >> >>> I read file with fileinput.input. >>> >>> thanks >> > I have tried with codecs, but when i use encoding="utf-8" i get this error > on word : život > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\getcontent.py", line 43, in <module> > encoding="utf-8").readlines() > File "C:\Python25\Lib\codecs.py", line 626, in readlines > return self.reader.readlines(sizehint) > File "C:\Python25\Lib\codecs.py", line 535, in readlines > data = self.read() > File "C:\Python25\Lib\codecs.py", line 424, in read > newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 0: > unexpected code byte > > > i just need to read from file1.txt, process (its simple text processing) > some words and write them to file2.txt without loss of croatian characters. > (šđžčć) > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- a lex 13 x -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list