[cool_eagle]

when i use this character = ş , ü ,ö ,ç ,ı
an i take this error:
UnicodeError:ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

[gaba88]

Originally Posted by cool_eagle

when i use this character = ş , ü ,ö ,ç ,ı
an i take this error:
UnicodeError:ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

hi cool_eagle
i think you must use unicode encoding before using these characters. it will be better if you post a bit of code you are using.

[cool_eagle]

Originally Posted by gaba88

hi cool_eagle
i think you must use unicode encoding before using these characters. it will be better if you post a bit of code you are using.

can u give me an example

[shubhendra]

You can do something like this,

a = u'ş'
print ord(a)         #You will get 351 in return

[szallah]

@cool_eagle

the "problem" basically is, that python uses ascii as it's defaultencoding, and standard ascii does not have those characters like "äöüß", which is why python can't encode the charakters with the ascii-codec...

there are basically two solutions:
1. set the defaultencoding to something supporting your needed characters (UTF-8 covers pretty much everything you'll need).
you do so by putting this at the start of the code:

import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

however, this method is VERY unelegant, and if your also coding python on your pc it won't even work (because you can't change the deaultencoding that way on a pc).

the more elegant way is, as postet before, the use of unicode. one notice besides: unicode itself isn't really an encoding. you can't save files as unicode, they have to be encoded with something like latin-1, ascii or utf-8...
the general rule would be:
- when you load strings, DEcode them to unicode
- when you save them, ENcode them to encoding-xyz

>>> # Decoding to unicode
>>> input_s = 'äöüß'
>>> repr(input_s)
>>> "'\\xe4\\xf6\\xfc\\xdf'" # this is cp1252
>>> uni = input_s.decode('cp1252)
>>> repr(uni)
>>> "u'\\xe4\\xf6\\xfc\\xdf'" # this is unicode
>>> # cp1252 is the encoding used on my windows-pc, 
>>> output_s = uni.encode('utf-8')
>>> repr(output_s)
>>> "'\\xc3\\xa4\\xc3\\xb6\\xc3\\xbc\\xc3\\x9f'" # this is utf-8

hope this helps...