I permanently get the following error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)
I already tried
x.encode("ascii", "ignore")x.encode("utf-8")x.decode("utf-8")However, nothing works.
You have to discover in which encoding is this character at the source.
I guess this is ISO-8859-1 (european languages), in which case it's "ä", but you should check. It could also be cyrillic or greek.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 for a complete list of characters in this encoding.
Using this information, you can ask Python to convert it :
In Python 2.7
>>> s = '\xe4'
>>> t = s.decode('iso-8859-1')
>>> print t
ä
>>> for c in t:
... print ord(c)
...
228
>>> u = t.encode('utf-8')
>>> print u
ä
>>> for c in bytes(u):
... print ord(c)
...
195
164
String t is internally encoded in ISO-8859-1 in Python. String u is internally encoded in UTF-8, and that character takes 2 bytes in UTF-8. Notice also that the print instruction "knows" how to display these different encodings.
