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

Maybe a little late to reply. I happen to run into the same problem today. I find that on Windows you can change the console encoder to utf-8 or other encoder that can represent your data. Then you can print it to sys.stdout.

First, run following code in the console:

chcp 65001
set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8

Then, start python do anything you want.