Alex is correct, but as you have to export to csv, you can give the users this advice when opening the csv files: Save the exported file as a csv Open Excel Import the data using Data–>Import External Data –> Import Data Select the file type of “csv” and browse to your file In the … Read more
I’m getting a compile error at the following method. at Utility.java:[76,74] unmappable character for enoding UTF-8. 74th character is’ ” ‘ How can I fix this? Thanks.
To expand on the answers others have given: We’ve got lots of languages with lots of characters that computers should ideally display. Unicode assigns each character a unique number, or code point. Computers deal with such numbers as bytes… skipping a bit of history here and ignoring memory addressing issues, 8-bit computers would treat an … Read more
You don’t need to encode data that is already encoded. When you try to do that, Python will first try to decode it to unicode before it can encode it back to UTF-8. That is what is failing here: Just write your data directly to the file, there is no need to encode already-encoded data. If you instead build up unicode values instead, you would … Read more
What about this one simple command which not just finds but clears the nasty BOM? 🙂 I love “find” 🙂 Warning The above will modify binary files which contain those three characters. If you want just to show BOM files, use this one:
You report three separate problems. This is a bit of a guess into the blue, because there’s not enough information to be sure, but you should try the following: input encoding: As suggested in comments, try “utf-8-sig”. This will remove the Byte Order Mark (BOM) from your input. double quotes: Among the csv parameters, you specify quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE. This tells the csv library … Read more
I am currently using Beautiful Soup to parse an HTML file and calling get_text(), but it seems like I’m being left with a lot of \xa0 Unicode representing spaces. Is there an efficient way to remove all of them in Python 2.7, and change them into spaces? I guess the more generalized question would be, is … Read more
The Unicode character U+FEFF is the byte order mark, or BOM, and is used to tell the difference between big- and little-endian UTF-16 encoding. If you decode the web page using the right codec, Python will remove it for you. Examples: Note that EF BB BF is a UTF-8-encoded BOM. It is not required for UTF-8, but serves only … Read more
Python tries to convert a byte-array (a bytes which it assumes to be a utf-8-encoded string) to a unicode string (str). This process of course is a decoding according to utf-8 rules. When it tries this, it encounters a byte sequence which is not allowed in utf-8-encoded strings (namely this 0xff at position 0). Since you did … Read more
Whats the unicode Character code of that f symbol? (Image by WHATWG). I suppose it’s the tallest Unicode character there is. Is it?