Articles tagged with ascii

1. UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019'

   Posted on May 22, 2015 in Programming

   Once again I was working on some Python code for EVE Online. This particular bit of code gathers a list of kills for a particular region and then summarizes that data in a daily report. Everything had been working properly, until one day...

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/Users …

2. WordPress: Tired of Dashes and Quotes Being Rewritten?

   Posted on May 21, 2011 in Software

   Using WordPress to write a technical blog can be occasionally frustrating. WordPress uses the wptexturize() function to rewrite certain ASCII character combinations into HTML entities. Although this may generally be a "good thing," it's really annoying on technical blogs where two dashes is not an em dash.

   To disable this …