Mike Currie wrote: > I'm trying to write out files that have utf-8 characters 0x85 and 0x08 in > them. Every configuration I try I get a UnicodeError: ascii codec can't > decode byte 0x85 in position 255: oridinal not in range(128) > > I've tried using the codecs.open('foo.txt', 'rU', 'utf-8', errors='strict') > and that doesn't work > [...]
You want to write to a file but you used the 'rU' mode. This should be 'wU'. Don't know if this is the only reason it doesn't work. Could you show more of your code? Bye, Dennis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list