On 5/10/06, Eric Soroos  wrote:
> > How about this?
> >
> >    return unicode(val.s)  # Cheetah > 1.0rc1 compatibility.
> >
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in
> > position 412: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
>
> I've gotten this characer as some sort of space in an  excel csv
> file, and wound up killing it with
>
> fstr = unicode(str(f.read()), errors='ignore')
>
> But then, my target is very specific printable ascii, so ymmv.

Actually, I made  typo.  B0 (degree sign) is the character we're
getting.  A0 (no-break space) was just the page I was viewing, which
was generated by a test program that tries all possible characters.

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Mike Orr