UnicodeEncodeError Python?

Question

I get the following error when try to write in file:

UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'B\u1ea7u cua (B\u1ea7u cua 2017 )', 1, 2, 'ordinal not in range(128)'))

I try to write this text Bầu cua in file:

f = codecs.open("13.txt", "a", "utf-8")
f.write("{}\n".format(title))

Also I tried to use title.encode()

It gives me a new error:

When I use .encode(text) I get the following error: `

UnicodeDecodeError('ascii', 'B\xe1\xba\xa7u cua (B\xe1\xba\xa7u cua 2017 )\n', 1, 2, 'ordinal not in range(128)'))
`

Possible duplicate of [Writing Unicode text to a text file?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6048085/writing-unicode-text-to-a-text-file) — Antwane, Dec 15 '16 at 09:13
It does not work foe me `http://stackoverflow.com/a/6048203/7041624` — MisterPi, Dec 15 '16 at 09:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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As described this answer to "Writing Unicode text to a text file?", you have many solutions.

Basically, you have 2 issues:

The str.format() method must be used on an unicode object

u'{}\n'.format('Bầu cua')

The file you write to also must be opened with the right encoding:

f = open('13.txt', 'a', encoding='utf-8')

As a result, this works for Python 3:

data = 'Bầu cua'
f = open('13.txt', 'a', encoding='utf-8')
line = u'{}\n'.format(data)
f.write(line)
f.close()

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Dec 15 '16 at 09:27

Antwane

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Yes, I applied your answer and now get error: `UnicodeDecodeError('ascii', 'Volkswagen Golf GTI \xe2\x80\x93 EBG\n', 20, 21, 'ordinal not in range(128)')) ` – MisterPi Dec 15 '16 at 09:38
Notice please attention on my comment – MisterPi Dec 15 '16 at 09:42

Shivkumar kondi · Answer 2 · 2016-12-15T17:04:19.660

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Try with these two lines at the beginning of the file. It works well for Python2.7

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

data = u'Bầu cua'
f = open('test.txt', 'a')
line = u'{}\n'.format(data)
f.write(line.encode('utf8'))
f.close()

edited Dec 15 '16 at 17:04

answered Dec 15 '16 at 13:05

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UnicodeEncodeError Python?

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