UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2010': character maps to <undefined> [duplicate]

Question

I keep getting UnicodeEncodeError when trying to print a 'Á' that I get from a website requested using selenium in python 3.4.

I already defined at the top of my .py file

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

the def is something like this:

from selenium import webdriver  b = webdriver.Firefox() b.get('http://fisica.uniandes.edu.co/personal/profesores-de-planta') dataProf = b.find_elements_by_css_selector('td[width="508"]') for dato in dataProf:         print(datos.text) 

and the exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:/Users/Andres/Desktop/scrap/scrap.py", line 444, in <module>     dar_p_fisica()   File "C:/Users/Andres/Desktop/scrap/scrap.py", line 390, in dar_p_fisica     print(datos.text) #.encode().decode('ascii', 'ignore')   File "C:\Python34\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2010' in position 173: character maps to <undefined> 

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Already figured it out. As it is noted in this answer, the encoding error doesnt come from python, but from the encoding that the console is using. So the way to fix it is to run the command (in windows):

chcp 65001 

that sets the encoding to UTF-8 and then run the program again. Or if working on pycharm as I was, go to Settings>Editor>File Encodings and set the IDE and Project encodings accondingly.