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Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 19:36:19 -0400
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
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On 4/29/2013 5:47 AM, cl@isbd.net wrote:
> If I understand correctly the encode() is saying that it can't
> understand the data in the html because there's a character 0xc3 in it.
> I *think* this means that the é is encoded in UTF-8 already in the
> incoming data stream (should be as my system is wholly UTF-8 as far as I
> know and I created the directory name).
>
> So how do I change the code so I don't get the error?  Do I just
> decode() the data first and then encode() it?
>

BTW, I did a presentation at PyCon 2012 that many people have found 
helpful: Pragmatic Unicode, or, How Do I Stop the Pain: 
http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html .  It explains the principles 
at work here.

--Ned.