Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation

From	Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation
Date	2012-03-09 13:23 +0000
Organization	Norwich University
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On 2012-03-08, John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> wrote:
> So it's possible to get junk characters in a "str", and they
> won't convert to Unicode.  I've had this happen with databases
> which were supposed to be ASCII, but occasionally a non-ASCII
> character would slip through.

Perhaps encode and then decode, rather than try to encode a
non-encoded str.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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"Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-07 00:25 -0800
  Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation deets@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) - 2012-03-07 11:20 +0100
    Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-07 22:18 +1100
      Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-07 11:42 +0000
        Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-07 11:25 -0800
          Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-08 08:48 +1100
            Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-07 23:26 +0000
              Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-03-07 19:03 -0500
              Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-08 13:18 +1100
                Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-08 14:23 -0800
                RE: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-03-08 22:58 +0000
                Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-09 10:11 -0800
                Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-10 00:57 +0000
                Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-10 22:12 -0800
                Re: "Decoding unicode is not supported" in unusual situation Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-03-09 13:23 +0000

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