Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file?

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Subject	Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file?
Date	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:50:01 +0100
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Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013.04.29 04:47, 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).
> You can verify that your filesystem is set to use UTF-8 with sys.getfilesystemencoding(). 
> If it returns 'ascii', then your locale settings 
> are incorrect.
> 

    chris$ python
    Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14) 
    [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.getfilesystemencoding()
    'UTF-8'
    >>> 

So I am set up right for UTF-8.

-- 
Chris Green

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How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 10:47 +0100
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 05:11 -0500
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 13:50 +0100
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-04-29 12:33 +0200
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-04-29 07:46 -0400
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 13:59 +0100
      Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-04-29 14:11 +0100
        Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? cl@isbd.net - 2013-04-29 15:38 +0100
          Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-04-29 09:56 -0500
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-29 18:02 -0400
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> - 2013-05-01 16:20 -0500
    Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-01 18:01 -0400
  Re: How do I encode and decode this data to write to a file? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-01 19:36 -0400

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