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Re: encoding error in python 27

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: encoding error in python 27
Date 2013-02-22 16:40 +0100
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Hala Gamal wrote:

> my code works well with english file but when i use text file
> encodede"utf-8" "my file contain some arabic letters" it doesn't work. my
> code:

>   with codecs.open("tt.txt",encoding='utf-8') as txtfile:

Try encoding="utf-8-sig" in the above to remove the byte order mark (BOM) 
upon decoding, see

http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/codecs.html#module-encodings.utf_8_sig

That should prevent

> UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in
> position 0: invalid decimal Unicode string

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encoding error in python 27 Hala Gamal <halagamal2009@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 06:55 -0800
  Re: encoding error in python 27 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-22 16:40 +0100
  Re: encoding error in python 27 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-22 17:35 +0000
  Re: encoding error in python 27 Hala Gamal <halagamal2009@gmail.com> - 2013-02-23 20:31 -0800
    Re: encoding error in python 27 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-24 09:34 +0100

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