I have a string fetched from database, in iso8859-2, with 8bit characters, and I'm trying to send it over the network, via a socket:
File "E:\Python24\lib\socket.py", line 249, in write
data = str(data) # XXX Should really reject non-string non-buffers
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0161' in position 123: ordinal not in range(128)
The other end knows it should expect this encoding, so how to send it?
I think maybe the string from the database is a unicode string, not 8-bit. What happens if you write data.encode('iso8859-2') ?
(Does anyone else feel that python's unicode handling is, well... suboptimal at least?)
It can be confusing and surprising, yes. Suboptimal...well, I wouldn't want to say that I could do better...
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