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Convert Unicode to ASCII without errors in Python

My code just scrapes a web page, then converts it to Unicode. html = urllib.urlopen(link).read() html.encode("utf8","ignore") self.response.out.write(html) But I get a UnicodeDecodeError: Traceback ...

June 2, 2022
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Programming, regex

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(grep) Regex to match non-ASCII characters?

On Linux, I have a directory with lots of files. Some of them have non-ASCII characters, but they are all valid UTF-8. One ...

June 1, 2022
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Java, Programming

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Convert character to ASCII numeric value in java

I have String name = "admin"; then I do String charValue = name.substring(0,1); //charValue="a" I want to convert the charValue to its ASCII ...

May 28, 2022
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HTML code for an apostrophe

Seemingly simple, but I cannot find anything relevant on the web. What is the correct HTML code for an apostrophe? Is it ’? ...

May 24, 2022
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How to check if a string in Python is in ASCII?

I want to I check whether a string is in ASCII or not. I am aware of ord(), however when I try ord('é'), ...

May 23, 2022
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What is ANSI format?

What is ANSI encoding format? Is it a system default format? In what way does it differ from ASCII? 10 Answers 10

May 22, 2022
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How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#)

How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#) 12 Answers 12

May 20, 2022
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What is a vertical tab?

What was the original historical use of the vertical tab character (\v in the C language, ASCII 11)? Did it ever have a ...

May 20, 2022
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Replace non-ASCII characters with a single space

I need to replace all non-ASCII (\x00-\x7F) characters with a space. I’m surprised that this is not dead-easy in Python, unless I’m missing ...

May 17, 2022
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Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences

What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers? ...

May 9, 2022
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