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RE: Right solution to unicode error?

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Thanks, Oscar and Ramit! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Anders 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oscar Benjamin [mailto:oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:27 PM
> To: Anders Schneiderman
> Cc: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Re: Right solution to unicode error?
> 
> On 7 November 2012 22:17, Anders <aschneiderman@asha.org> wrote:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "outlook_tasks.py", line 66, in <module>
> >     my_tasks.dump_today_tasks()
> >   File "C:\Users\Anders\code\Task List\tasks.py", line 29, in
> > dump_today_tasks
> >     print task.subject
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in
> > position 42: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> > Here's where I'm getting stuck.  In the code above I was just printing
> > the subject so I can see whether the script is working properly.
> > Ultimately what I want to do is parse the tasks I'm interested in and
> > then create an HTML file containing those tasks.  Given that, what's
> > the best way to fix this problem?
> 
> Are you using cmd.exe (standard Windows terminal)? If so, it does not
> support unicode and Python is telling you that it cannot encode the string in a
> way that can be understood by your terminal. You can try using chcp to set
> the code page to something that works with your script.
> 
> If you are only printing it for debugging purposes you can just print the repr()
> of the string which will be ascii and will come out fine in your terminal. If you
> want to write it to a html file you should encode the string with whatever
> encoding (probably utf-8) you use in the html file. If you really just want your
> script to be able to print unicode characters then you need to use something
> other than cmd.exe (such as IDLE).
> 
> 
> Oscar

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Right solution to unicode error? Anders <aschneiderman@asha.org> - 2012-11-07 14:17 -0800
  RE: Right solution to unicode error? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-07 23:07 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 23:27 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 17:51 -0600
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-07 23:53 +0000
    Re: Right solution to unicode error? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-11-08 12:40 +0100
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 00:44 +0000
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 03:01 -0800
  RE: Right solution to unicode error? Anders Schneiderman <ASchneiderman@asha.org> - 2012-11-08 09:00 -0500
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:06 +0000
    Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 07:05 -0800
      Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 18:32 +0000
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:30 -0800
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:30 -0800
      Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 11:48 -0700
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:54 -0800
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 13:41 -0700
            Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-09 02:06 -0800
          RE: Right solution to unicode error? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-08 20:54 +0000
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 14:07 -0700
          Re: Right solution to unicode error? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 21:37 +0000
        Re: Right solution to unicode error? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-08 11:54 -0800
  Re: Right solution to unicode error? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 21:30 -0600

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