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

This will work:

 >>>print(unicodedata.normalize('NFD', re.sub("[\(\[].*?[\)\]]", "", "bats\xc3\xa0")).encode('ascii', 'ignore'))

Output:

>>>bats