How to fix: “UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte”

Question

as3:~/ngokevin-site# nano content/blog/20140114_test-chinese.mkd as3:~/ngokevin-site# wok Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/wok", line 4, in Engine() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wok/engine.py", line 104, in init self.load_pages() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wok/engine.py", line 238, in load_pages p = Page.from_file(os.path.join(root, f), self.options, self, renderer) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wok/page.py", line 111, in from_file page.meta['content'] = page.renderer.render(page.original) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wok/renderers.py", line 46, in render return markdown(plain, Markdown.plugins) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/markdown/init.py", line 419, in markdown return md.convert(text) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/markdown/init.py", line 281, in convert source = unicode(source) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128). -- Note: Markdown only accepts unicode input!

How to fix it?

Answer 1

To fix “UnicodeDecodeError you can use the following piece of code this is the default encoding of python is utf8. After writing this code there would not be any error left.

import sys

reload(sys)

sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')