How-to articles, tricks, and solutions about UNICODE

This error occurs when trying to open a file that contains escape characters (such as \) in the file path, and the escape characters are not being properly interpreted by Python.

You can use the .encode() method to convert a Unicode string to a string containing extra symbols in Python.

In PHP, you can use the utf8_decode() function to decode a string that contains Unicode escape sequences.

To read a file in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding in Python, you can use the built-in open() function, specifying the encoding as "utf-8".

You can use Unicode characters in a PHP string by including the character directly in the string, or by using the \u escape sequence followed by the Unicode code point of the character in hexadecimal.

Here is an example of a Python code snippet that could cause a UnicodeDecodeError: invalid continuation byte error:

This error occurs when trying to decode a string using the 'charmap' codec, which is typically used for Windows-1252 character encoding.

This error is raised when trying to encode a Unicode string using the ASCII codec, and the string contains a character that is not within the ASCII range (0-127).

The 'b' character in front of a string literal indicates that the string is a bytes literal.

In Python, the "r" prefix before a string denotes that it is a raw string literal.