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I am getting a Unicode error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xa9' in position 822: character maps to <undefined> This appears to be a standard copyright symbol, and in the HTML is &copy. I have not been able to find a way past this. I even tried a custom function to replace copy with a space but that also failed with the same error. import sys import pprint import mechanize import cookielib from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import html2text import lxml def MakePretty(): def ChangeCopy(S): return S.replace(chr(169)," ") br = mechanize.Browser() # Cookie Jar cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) # Browser options br.set_handle_equiv(True) #br.set_handle_gzip(True) br.set_handle_redirect(True) br.set_handle_referer(True) br.set_handle_robots(False) # Follows refresh 0 but not hangs on refresh > 0 br.set_handle_refresh(mechanize._http.HTTPRefreshProcessor(), max_time=1) # User-Agent (this is cheating, ok?) br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')] # The site we will navigate into, handling its session # Open the site br.open('http://www.thesitewizard.com/faqs/copyright-symbol.shtml') html = br.response().read() soup = BeautifulSoup(html) print soup.prettify() if __name__ == '__main__': MakePretty() How do I get prettify past the copyright symbol? I have searched all over the web for a solution to no avail (or I might not understand as I am fairly new to Python and scraping). Thanks for your help.

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