topic Re: How can I use unicode characters in the path to an FGDB in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-can-i-use-unicode-characters-in-the-path-to-an/m-p/726002#M56277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Best practice is to never use characters other than the letters of the alphabet, Underscore "_" and numbers.&nbsp; And to NOT use a space </P><P></P><P>You will consistently have issues using Unicode characters less than "A" or greater than "z"</P><P></P><P>Your best answer is to fix the issue by correcting the name of the File Geodatabase.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:26:16 GMT RobertBorchert 2018-07-12T18:26:16Z How can I use unicode characters in the path to an FGDB https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-can-i-use-unicode-characters-in-the-path-to-an/m-p/726001#M56276 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am attempting to use the <A href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/conversion-toolbox/raster-to-geodatabase.htm">RasterToGeodatabase_conversion </A>to store rasters in a raster catalog stored in the File Geodatabase. However one of the directories containing the FGDB has a unicode character in it and this results in the following error.</P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive_macro_quote jive-quote jive_text_macro"><P>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)</P></BLOCKQUOTE><P></P><P>Is there some setting I can enable that will allow for usage of unicode characters in FGDB paths?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:03:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-can-i-use-unicode-characters-in-the-path-to-an/m-p/726001#M56276 MichaelRapp 2018-07-12T18:03:01Z Re: How can I use unicode characters in the path to an FGDB https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-can-i-use-unicode-characters-in-the-path-to-an/m-p/726002#M56277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Best practice is to never use characters other than the letters of the alphabet, Underscore "_" and numbers.&nbsp; And to NOT use a space </P><P></P><P>You will consistently have issues using Unicode characters less than "A" or greater than "z"</P><P></P><P>Your best answer is to fix the issue by correcting the name of the File Geodatabase.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:26:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-can-i-use-unicode-characters-in-the-path-to-an/m-p/726002#M56277 RobertBorchert 2018-07-12T18:26:16Z