Ascii codec can't decode character

Scripting
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Hi everyone.
We are receiving more and more files that contain fonts in the layers names or in the file name that cause me this message:

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Do you have any solution to avoid this?

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Hello.

What does line 41 of your script say? What are the important bits before and after?

Graham

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40 file = open(finalPath, “a+”)
41 file.write("[layers]" ‘\n’ + ‘\n’.join(layerList))
42 file.close()

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You probably should start using utf-8 instead of ascii, especially in a multiliingual environment.

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Try adding # coding: utf-8 as the very first line of your script : does that fix it?

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You need to import the codecs module so you can set the encoding to utf-8 to read and write unicode files.

Here’s a simple example which combines a Chinese character with good ol’ Hello World, writes it to a file and reads it back:

import codecs
f = codecs.open('test.txt', encoding='utf-8', mode='w+')
f.write(u'\u4500Hello World\n')
f.seek(0)
for line in f:
    print repr (line)
f.close()

Regards
Jeremy

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It works, thank you!
it was easier than I thought :slight_smile:

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By the way it is a good idea to use a context manager when reading or especially writing files to avoid leaving corrupted or blocked files on your system:

with open(finalPath, “a+”) as file:
    file.write("[layers]" ‘\n’ + ‘\n’.join(layerList))

# file is closed automatically
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