UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character:
UnicodeEncodeError typically occurs when you attempt to encode a Unicode string using the “ASCII” encoding method instead of using a UTF encoding method.
Example in Python3:
madhu@madhu-Inspiron-5567:~$ cat unicode-encode-error.py
s = "s3rr2Ä"
print(s)
print(type(s))
e1 = s.encode("ascii") # Should use "utf-8" instead of "ascii", as we are dealing with a non ascii character in the string.
print(e1)
print(type(e1))
Output:
madhu@madhu-Inspiron-5567:~$ python unicode-encode-error.py
s3rr2Ä
<class 'str'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "unicode-encode-error.py", line 4, in <module>
e1 = s.encode("ascii")
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xc4' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte
UnicodeDecodeError typically arises when you attempt to decode a byte string, created by encoding a Unicode string containing at least one non-ASCII character using a UTF encoding method, using the “ASCII” decoding method instead of using the corresponding UTF decoding method.
Example in Python3:
madhu@madhu-Inspiron-5567:~$ cat unicode-decode-error.py
s = b"s3rr2\xc3\x84" # Actual character string related to this byte string is an Unicode string (s3rr2Ä)
print(s)
print(type(s))
e1 = s.decode("ascii") # In this case, should use "utf-8" instead of "ascii", otherwise we get UnicodeDecodeError.
print(e1)
print(type(e1))
Output:
madhu@madhu-Inspiron-5567:~$ python unicode-decode-error.py
b's3rr2\xc3\x84'
<class 'bytes'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "unicode-decode-error.py", line 4, in <module>
e1 = s.decode("ascii")
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
