I thought I was done with this crap once I moved to 3.x but some
Winblows machines are still sending what some circles call "Extended
ASCII". I have a file that I am trying to read and it is barfing on
some characters. For example:
due to the Qu\xe9bec government
Obviously should be "due to the Québec government". I can't figure out
what that encoding is or if it is anything that can even be understood
outside of M$. I have tried ascii, cp437, cp858, cp1140, cp1250,
latin-1, utf8 and others. None of them recognize that character. Can
someone tell me what encoding includes that character please.
Here is the failing code:
with open(sys.argv[1], encoding="latin-1") as fp:
for ln in fp:
print(ln)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./load_iff", line 11, in <module>
print(ln)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in
position 132: ordinal not in range(128)
I don't understand why the error says "ascii" when I told it to use
"latin-1".
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