How to solve this UnicodeEncodeError?
The error is the same as the one in hand. The error arose as an attempt to represent a character was made, which was outside the range of the ASCII encoding system. i.e., ASCII could only represent character values between the range -128 to 127, but \xa0 = 128, which is outside the range of ASCII. This led to the error. To rectify this error, we have to encode the text in a scheme that allows more code points (range) than ASCII. UTF-8 would serve this purpose.
Python3
a = 'w3wiki1234567\xa0'.encode("UTF-8")print(a) |
Output:
b'w3wiki1234567\xc2\xa0'
The program was executed this time because the string was encoded by a standard that allowed encoding code points greater than 128. Due to this, the character \xa0 (code point 128) got converted to \xc2\xa0, a two-byte representation.
Similarly, the error UnicodeEncodeError could be resolved by encoding to a format such as UTF-16/32, etc.
Python3
a = 'w3wiki1234567\xa0'.encode("UTF-16")print(a, end="\n\n\n")a = 'w3wiki1234567\xa0'.encode("UTF-32")print(a) |
Output:
b’\xff\xfeg\x00e\x00e\x00k\x00s\x00f\x00o\x00r\x00g\x00e\x00e\x00k\x00s\x001\x002\x003\x004\x005\x006\x007\x00\xa0\x00′
b’\xff\xfe\x00\x00g\x00\x00\x00e\x00\x00\x00e\x00\x00\x00k\x00\x00\x00s\x00\x00\x00f\x00\x00\x00o\x00\x00\x00r\x00\x00\x00g\x00\x00\x00e\x00\x00\x00e\x00\x00\x00k\x00\x00\x00s\x00\x00\x001\x00\x00\x002\x00\x00\x003\x00\x00\x004\x00\x00\x005\x00\x00\x006\x00\x00\x007\x00\x00\x00\xa0\x00\x00\x00′
How To Fix – UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xa0′ in position 20: ordinal not in range(128) in Python
Several errors can arise when an attempt to change from one datatype to another is made. The reason is the inability of some datatype to get casted/converted into others. One of the most common errors during these conversions is Unicode Encode Error which occurs when a text containing a Unicode literal is attempted to be encoded bytes. This article will teach you how to fix UnicodeEncodeError in Python.
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