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I'm pulling data out of a Google doc, processing it, and writing it to a file (that eventually I will paste into a Wordpress page). It has some non-ASCII symbols. How can I convert these safely to symbols that can be used in HTML source? Currently I'm converting everything to Unicode on the way in, joining it all together in a Python string, then doing: import codecs f = codecs.open('out.txt', mode="w", encoding="iso-8859-1") f.write(all_html.encode("iso-8859-1", "replace")) There is an encoding error on the last line: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 12286: ordinal not in range(128) Partial solution: This Python runs without an error: row = [unicode(x.strip()) if x is not None else u'' for x in row] all_html = row[0] + "<br/>" + row[1] f = open('out.txt', 'w') f.write(all_html.encode("utf-8")) But then if I open the actual text file, I see lots of symbols like: Qur’an Maybe I need to write to something other than a text file?
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