bad u'\u2019' character in python: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position :

lifted from Neil Rubens's blog
Submitted by Neil on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 18:13

bad u'\u2019' character in python: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position : ordinal


Problem: UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position : ordinal not in range(256)

Sollution:

if val != None and type(val) == type(u"") and val.find(u'\u2019') >= 0 : val = val.replace(u'\u2019', '\'')



Keywords

mysql UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character u'\u2019'

\u2019