On 6/27/06, Mike Currie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 and I've also try wrapping the file in an utf8_writer > using codecs.lookup('utf8') > > Any clues?
Use unicode strings for non-ascii characters. The following program "works": import codecs c1 = unichr(0x85) f = codecs.open('foo.txt', 'wU', 'utf-8') f.write(c1) f.close() But unichr(0x85) is a control characters, are you sure you want it? What is the encoding of your data? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list