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Ordinal not in range(128)

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat Mar 1 19:38:11 EST 2003 
Fabien HENON wrote:

> I have written a POV-RAY editor for Linux using Python and Tkinter.
> It mostly uses the text widget of Tkinter.
> 
> You can find it at :
> http://pyvon.sourceforge.net
> 
> As you can add comments in POV-RAY scripts, people who are using
> extended character (é,à,...) get the following message :
> 
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

This is a FAQ.  All it means that the Unicode object you're trying to
use as a normal string has not 7-bit clean, and so it can't know what
encoding you want to use without you giving it more information.  Try

	S = U.encode('latin-1')

or something similar (provided the character set you want really is
Latin-1).

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