UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u0218' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>

[Zoltán Bege]

Hi,

I have a Django application where I have to update some personal data in a Firebird 2.5 DB with cp1250 encoding.
Yesterday I got some Internal Server Error while updating a person's first or last name when using Ș, ș, Ț, ț characters.

The error can be easily reproduced in python (2.7 and 3.4) shell:
>>> u'Ș'.encode('cp1250')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u0218' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>

How I can encode the mentioned characters in cp1250 to avoid this error? I must use the Firebird 2.5 with cp1250 encoding, so db change is not an option.

Thanks,
Zoltan

[Michal Petrucha]

The four characters you listed above do not have a representation in
CP-1250. However, CP-1250 does have similar characters: "Ş", "ş", "Ţ",
and "ţ". They look similar, but they are not the same – yours are
letters with a comma underneath, and the ones supported by CP-1250
have a cedilla.

What you could do is use str.translate, or just four str.replace calls
to replace those wrong characters with ones supported in CP-1250.

Good luck,

Michal

[Zoltán Bege]

Thank you, Michal

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