Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
>
> By writing the following unicode string (I hope it can be send on this
> mailing list)
>
> Bücken
>
> to a file
>
> fh.write ( line )
>
> I get the following error:
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in
> position 9: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> How should I write such a string to a file ?
Your code fails because the unicode string denoted by the name, line, cannot
be converted to ASCII, which python silently tries to do.
Instead, use a compatible character encoding. Note the explicit conversion.
fh.write(line.encode('utf-8'))
Alternatively, you can write sixteen bit unicode directly to a file:
import codecs
f = codecs.open('unicodetest.txt', mode='w', encoding='utf-16')
f.write(u'Hello world\n')
f.close()
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