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

In general case of writing this unsupported encoding string (let's say data_that_causes_this_error) to some file (for e.g. results.txt), this works

f = open("results.txt", "w")
  f.write(data_that_causes_this_error.encode('utf-8'))
  f.close()