ignoring chinese characters parsing xml file

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabian_L=F3pez?=]

Hi,
I am parsing an XML file that includes chineses characters, like ^
ÔuÔuà¢à¢²ÅÊDZw.¼ššìéLï³²ÅÊÇ�Û or ¥Ø¥¢¥¢¥¤¥í¥ó... The problem is that I get an error like:
UnicodeEncodeerror:'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position....
The thing is that I would like to ignore it and parse all the characters
less these ones. So, could anyone help me? I suppose that I can catch an
exception that ignores it or maybe use any function that detects this
chinese characters and after that ignore them.

Thanks!!
Fabian

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:24:40 +0200, Fabian López wrote:

I am parsing an XML file that includes chineses characters, like ^
uuå•–å•–æ‰�是w.扉Lé”�æ‰�是 or ヘアアイãƒ*ン... The problem is that I get an error like:
UnicodeEncodeerror:'charmap' codec can't encode characters in
position..

You say you are *parsing* the file but this is an *encode* error. Parsing
means *decoding*.

You have to show some code and the actual traceback to get help. Crystal
balls are not that reliable. ;-)

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Stefan Behnel]

Fabian López wrote:

Thanks Mark, the code is like this. The attrib name is the problem:

from lxml import etree

context = etree.iterparse("file.xml")
for action, elem in context:
if elem.tag == "weblog":
print action, elem.tag , elem.attrib["name"],elem.attrib["url"],

The problem is the print statement. Looks like your terminal encoding (that
Python needs to encode the unicode string to) can't handle these unicode
characters.

Stefan

[limodou]

On 10/23/07, Stefan Behnel <st******************@web.dewrote:

Fabian López wrote:

Thanks Mark, the code is like this. The attrib name is the problem:

from lxml import etree

context = etree.iterparse("file.xml")
for action, elem in context:
if elem.tag == "weblog":
print action, elem.tag , elem.attrib["name"],elem.attrib["url"],

The problem is the print statement. Looks like your terminal encoding (that
Python needs to encode the unicode string to) can't handle these unicode
characters.

I agree. For Japanese, you should know the exactly encoding name, and
convert them, just like:

print text.encoding('encoding')

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