UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I\'m having problems dealing with unicode characters from text fetched from different web pages (on different sites). I am using BeautifulSoup.

The problem is that

Answer 1

If you have something like packet_data = "This is data" then do this on the next line, right after initializing packet_data:

unic = u''
packet_data = unic