Say I have a function: def NewFunction(): return ‘£’ I want to print some stuff with a pound sign in front of it and it prints an error when I try to run this program, this error message is displayed: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ‘\xa3’ in file ‘blah’ but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details … Read more
I have a socket server that is supposed to receive UTF-8 valid characters from clients. The problem is some clients (mainly hackers) are sending all the wrong kind of data over it. I can easily distinguish the genuine client, but I am logging to files all the data sent so I can analyze it later. … Read more
I’m having problems dealing with unicode characters from text fetched from different web pages (on different sites). I am using BeautifulSoup. The problem is that the error is not always reproducible; it sometimes works with some pages, and sometimes, it barfs by throwing a UnicodeEncodeError. I have tried just about everything I can think of, … Read more
