URLencode Japanese characters

Question

How would I urlencode the following? What I am currently doing throws a KeyError.

episode_title = 'ザ・ロック（日本語吹替版)'
try:
    qs = urllib.quote(episode_title)
except:
    qs = urllib.quote(episode_title.encode('utf8'))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  KeyError: u'\u30b6'

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/912811/what-is-the-proper-way-to-url-encode-unicode-characters -- TL;DR: unconditionally urllib.urlencode the utf-8 encoding of your Unicode string. — Alex Martelli, Mar 06 '15 at 03:22
If you are doing this using Python2, doing `episode_title = u'ザ・ロック（日本語吹替版)'` works with the encoded result of that `episode_title` unicode string (i.e. the statement in the exception block). — metatoaster, Mar 06 '15 at 03:26
try adding unicode to the string: `episode_title = u'ザ・ロック（日本語吹替版)'`, and do: `qs = urllib.quote(episode_title.encode('utf8'))` and see if this works — Anzel, Mar 06 '15 at 03:27

Aaron · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-06T03:31:41.977

Maybe add an decode('utf-8') to your string.

import urllib
episode_title = "ザ・ロック（日本語吹替版)".decode('utf-8')
try:
    qs = urllib.quote(episode_title)
except:
    qs = urllib.quote(episode_title.encode('utf8'))
print qs

Result:

%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%EF%BC%88%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E5%90%B9%E6%9B%BF%E7%89%88%29

PS: I use iPython, and your code works fine. Maybe you can switch to another Editor.

URLencode Japanese characters

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