In binary, 0xE9 looks like 1110 1001. If you read about UTF-8 on Wikipedia, you’ll see that such a byte must be followed by two of the form 10xx xxxx. So, for example: But that’s just the mechanical cause of the exception. In this case, you have a string that is almost certainly encoded in … Read more
The problem might have to do with the fact that you are adding ints to strings here As far as I’m aware, the interpretor cannot implicitly convert an int to a string. This might work, though, On which I’m assuming Python > 3.0
2018 Update: As of February 2018, using compressions like gzip has become quite popular (around 73% of all websites use it, including large sites like Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Reddit, Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange Network sites).If you do a simple decode like in the original answer with a gzipped response, you’ll get an error … Read more
The following code points exist related to clocks, watches, and other devices to indicate time: You can copy and paste the characters from this page into most editors. At unicode-table.com you might find more useful code points.
How well does the C++ standard library support unicode? Terribly. A quick scan through the library facilities that might provide Unicode support gives me this list: Strings library Localization library Input/output library Regular expressions library I think all but the first one provide terrible support. I’ll get back to it in more detail after a … Read more
Update: Python 3 In Python 3, Unicode strings are the default. The type str is a collection of Unicode code points, and the type bytes is used for representing collections of 8-bit integers (often interpreted as ASCII characters). Here is the code from the question, updated for Python 3: Working with files: Historical answer: Python 2 In Python 2, … Read more
The reason is that in 3.x Python You can’t just mix unicode strings with byte strings. Probably, You’ve read the manuals dealing with Python 2.x where such things are possible as long as bytestring contains convertable chars. works fine for me, so the only reason is that you’re using wrong encoding for source file or … Read more
Python 3 renamed the unicode type to str, the old str type has been replaced by bytes. You may want to read the Python 3 porting HOWTO for more such details. There is also Lennart Regebro’s Porting to Python 3: An in-depth guide, free online. Last but not least, you could just try to use the 2to3 tool to see how that translates the code for you.