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Python UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters

There is a json data which contains some Chinese characters.

{
 "font_size": "47",
 "sentences": [
 "你好",
 "sample sentence1",
 "sample sentence2",
 "sample sentence3",
 "sample sentence4",
 "sample sentence5",
 "sample sentence6",
 "sample sentence7",
 "sample sentence8",
 "sample sentence9"
 ]
}

I create a Flask app and use it to receive above json data. I use below curl command to post data.

curl -X POST \
 http://0.0.0.0:5000/ \
 -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8' \
 -H 'Postman-Token: af380f7a-42a8-cfbb-9177-74bb348ce5ed' \
 -d '{
 "font_size": "47",
 "sentences": [
 "你好",
 "sample sentence1",
 "sample sentence2",
 "sample sentence3",
 "sample sentence4",
 "sample sentence5",
 "sample sentence6",
 "sample sentence7",
 "sample sentence8",
 "sample sentence9"
 ]
}'

After I receive json data from request.data, I convert it to json, in fact request.data is str.

json_data = json.loads(request.data)

Then I want to format a string with json_data.

subtitles.format(**json_data)

I got an error.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128)

How to solve it? Thanks in advance.

EDIT

subtitles is read from file.

subtitles_file = "{path}/templates/sorry/subtitles.ass".format(path=root_path)
with open(subtitles_file, 'r') as file:
 subtitles = file.read()

EDIT Python 2 or Python 3

I'm using python 2 and this error occurs. However Python 3 can automatically handle this. So enjoy Python 3.

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Very nice answer. Thanks a lot.

CoXier
– CoXier

2018年03月14日 06:57:42 +00:00
Commented Mar 14, 2018 at 6:57

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