topic Re: Problem on unicode fonts in Python Questions

Problem on unicode fonts

H_A_D_Padmasiri — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:49:28 GMT

Dear sir!

When I use unicode "SINHALA" (Our local fonts) in Python, It gives me following message

>>> str1 = "මාතා"

Unsupported characters in input

How to solve this Problem

Thanks

Padmasiri

Re: Problem on unicode fonts

ShaunWalbridge — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:55:08 GMT

Check out Dan Patterson's answer to this question yesterday:

ascii codec can't encode character u'\xe1' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

It's effectively the same issue -- you'll need to declare the file encoding as UTF-8 (or something else that includes Sinhalese within its encoding set), and then tell Python that the strings you're encoding are Unicode by prefixing them with u"", e.g.:

str1 = u"මාතා"