This error occurs when you pass a Unicode string containing non-English characters (Unicode characters beyond 128) to something that expects an ASCII bytestring. The default encoding for a Python bytestring is ASCII, 'which handles exactly 128 (English) characters'.

This is why trying to convert Unicode characters beyond 128 produces the error.The unicode unicode(string, encoding, errors)constructor has the signature unicode(string, encoding, errors). All of its arguments should be 8-bit strings.The first argument is converted to Unicode using the specified encoding; if you leave off the encoding argument, the ASCII encoding is used for the conversion, so characters greater than 127 will be treated as errorsfor example s = u'La Pexf1a'print s.encode('latin-1')or write(s.encode('latin-1'))will encode using latin-1. Yes, when I say 'you must do this' I understand perfectly that you aren't doing it yet. That's why you must do it: to fix the problem you describe.

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Write doesn't 'understand Unicode' because (a) files do not contain characters, but bytes; and (b) there is more than one way to do the encoding and there is no particularly good way for it to choose on your behalf. Well, actually, it does: it picks the simplest possible encoding, that only handles the few character that everyone agrees upon, so that an error comes up if anything special is required.–Aug 4 '11 at 11:08. If I type 'python unicode' into Google, I get about 14 million results; the first is which describes the whole situation in excruciating detail; and the fourth is a that will pretty much spoon-feed you an answer, and also make sure you understand what's going on.You really do need to read and understand these sorts of overviews, however long they seem. There really isn't any getting around it. Text is hard. There is no such thing as 'plain text', there hasn't been a reasonable facsimile for years, and there never really was, although we spent decades pretending there was.

Only encode the Unicode objects when you're done with them. Encode last also means, don't let Python encode your Unicode objects for you. Python will use ASCII and your programs will crash. When in doubt, encode as UTF-8 means this: Since UTF-8 can handle any Unicode character, your best bet is to use it as opposed to window-1252 or god forbid.

Cadtools 11 for mac. But Unicode is at least a standard.You also should read. The answer to your question is 'use codecs'. The appeded code also shows some gettext magic, FWIW. That's also showing a bunch of i18n machinery that OP doesn't care about - he's not trying to make sure that people see text in the right language, he's trying to grab text in a specific language from a specific source and put it in a file.

So the only relevant part of your snipped is the first line and the last two, really. As for 'hard to find', really? What did you Google for? I tried UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character; the results seem helpful enough.–Aug 4 '11 at 11:13.