How to export DataFrame to Html with utf-8 encoding?

Question

I keep getting:

UnicodeEncodeError: \'ascii\' codec can\'t encode characters in position 265-266: ordinal not in range(128)

when I try:

Answer 1

If you really need to keep the output to html, you could try cleaning the code in a numpy array before writing to_html.

df = pd.DataFrame({"a": [u'Rue du Gu\xc3\xa9, 78120 Sonchamp'], "b": [u"some other thing"]})

def clean_unicode(df):
   *#Transforms the DataFrame to Numpy array*
   df=df.as_matrix()
   *#Encode all strings with special characters* 
   for x in np.nditer(df, flags=['refs_ok'], op_flags =['copy', 'readonly']):
         df[df==x]=str(str(x).encode("latin-1", "replace").decode('utf8'))
   *#Transform the Numpy array to Dataframe again*
   df=pd.DataFrame(df)
   return df

df=clean_unicode(df)
df.to_html("Results.html') -----> Success!