I'm having troubles in encoding characters in utf-8. I'm using Django, and I get this error when I tried to send an Android notification with non-plain text. I tried to find where the source of the error and I managed to figure out that the source of the error is not in my project.
In python shell, I type:
'ç'.encode('utf8')
and I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe7 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
I get the same errors with:
'á'.encode('utf-8')
unicode('ç')
'ç'.encode('utf-8','ignore')
I get errors with smart_text, force_text and smart_bytes too.
Is that a problem with Python, my OS, or another thing?
I'm running Python 2.6.6 on a Red Hat version 4.4.7-3
You're trying to encode / decode strings, not Unicode strings. The following statements do work:
u'ç'.encode('utf8')
u'á'.encode('utf-8')
unicode(u'ç')
u'ç'.encode('utf-8','ignore')