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@marcoippolito

Hi,
when running this code on my Ubuntu 12.04 micro-instance:

!/usr/bin/python

import boilerpipe

from boilerpipe.extract import Extractor
extractor = Extractor(extractor='ArticleExtractor', url="http://europe.wsj.com/home-page")
extracted_text = extractor.getText()
print extracted_text
extracted_html = extractor.getHTML()

I get this error:
python boilerpipeTrial.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "boilerpipeTrial.py", line 9, in
print extracted_text
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xbb' in position 20: ordinal not in range(128)

where line 9 is: print extracted_text

Would please give me some hints on how to solve it?

Kind regards.
Marco

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  1. marcoippolito commented on Feb 4, 2014

    @marcoippolito
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    I solved this issue by adding:
    extracted_text_u = extracted_text.encode('utf-8','replace')
    print extracted_text_u

    Any contraindications with this adding?

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