[bercobeute]

I'm trying to write text from a TextComponent to a file, but that gives me the following error:

UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range (126)


How can I solve this?

[simo.salminen]

write:
fh.write(your_unicode_string.encode("utf-8"))

read:
unicode_string = fh.read().decode("utf-8")

Also, check this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"

[bercobeute]

Thanks for the help and the excellent link! It definitely made things a lot clearer for me. Indeed a 'must read' for all software developers.