'ascii' codec can't encode character at position * ord not in range(128)

Question

There are a few threads on stackoverflow, but i couldn\'t find a valid solution to the problem as a whole.

I have collected huge sums of textual data from the urllib rea

Answer 1

You can do it through smart_str of Django module. Just try this:

from django.utils.encoding import smart_str, smart_unicode

text = u'\u2019'
print smart_str(text)

You can install Django by starting a command shell with administrator privileges and run this command:

pip install Django