Has anyone been able to write out UTF-8 characters using python's xlwt?

Question

I\'m trying to write data to an excel file that includes Japanese characters. I\'m using codec.open() to get the data, and that seems to work fine, but I run into this error

Answer 1

As suggested by this question, setting the encoding on the WorkBook

wb = xlwt.Workbook(encoding='latin-1') 

should also resolve the issue (it worked for me).