UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)
This error is raised when trying to encode a Unicode string using the ASCII codec, and the string contains a character that is not within the ASCII range (0-127).
This error is raised when trying to encode a Unicode string using the ASCII codec, and the string contains a character that is not within the ASCII range (0-127). The specific character causing the error is the non-breaking space (U+00A0).
Here is a code snippet that demonstrates this error:
A python code that raises UnicodeEncodeError
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To fix this error, you can use a different encoding that supports the character in question, such as UTF-8:
Encode text with utf-8 in Python
or you can remove or replace the character causing the error with a character in the ASCII range.
Encode text with ascii in Python