How to fix: “UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte”

Question

as3:~/ngokevin-site# nano content/blog/20140114_test-chinese.mkd
as3:~/ngokevin-site# wok
Traceback (most recent call last):
File \"/usr/local/bin/wok\", line 4, in
         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem but it didn't work for Python 3. I followed this and it solved my problem:

enc = sys.getdefaultencoding()
file = open(menu, "r", encoding = enc)

You have to set the encoding when you are reading/writing the file.