UnicodeEncodeError

[un1t]

Hi!
Cool project. I was looking for something like this. I came across a bug.

I have some xml with unicode chars:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<page>
    <menu>
    <name>Привет мир</name>
    <items>
        <item>
            <name>Пункт 1</name>
            <url>http://example1.com</url>
        </item>
        <item>
            <name>Пункт 2</name>
            <url>http://example2.com</url>
        </item>
    </items>
    </menu>
</page>


>>> obj = untangle.parse("1.xml")
>>> obj.page.menu.name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 46-51: ordinal not in range(128)

[drowolath]

2013/3/22 Ilya Shalyapin notifications@github.com

Hi!
Cool project. I was looking for something like this. I came across a bug.

I have some xml with unicode chars:

ðÒÉ×ÅÔ ÍÉÒ ðÕÎËÔ 1 http://example1.com ðÕÎËÔ 2 http://example2.com

obj = untangle.parse("1.xml")
obj.page.menu.name
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 46-51: ordinal not in range(128)

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Hi,

I did repeat your example, but got no error (I work with python 2.7.3)
I seem to recall that with python 2.6.6 the default encoding is set to
"ascii"
Try to set you default encoding to "utf-8" first.

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

Thomas

[stchris]

Thanks, @drowolath !
@un1t : which python version are you using?

[un1t]

Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39)

getdefaultencoding returns 'ascii' , but I don't think it'i a problem. lxml.etree works fine with such files.

[step21]

I had the same problem with German and Hebrew characters especially. Importing sys and setting defaultencoding fixed it though. This should really be added to docs.

[stchris]

Docs updated by @step21 in #11 . I hope that's good enough. Thanks, guys!