python 3.2 UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2013' in position 9629: character maps to

Question

I\'m trying to make a script that gets data out from an sqlite3 database, but I have run in to a problem.

The field in the database is of type text and the contains a ht

Answer 1

When you open the file you want to write to, open it with a specific encoding that can handle all the characters.

with open('filename', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    print(r['body'], file=f)