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
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"