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diff --git a/bs4/doc/source/index.rst b/bs4/doc/source/index.rst index 200317a..0467c00 100644 --- a/bs4/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/bs4/doc/source/index.rst @@ -2160,6 +2160,27 @@ element in the soup, just as if it were a Python string:: soup.p.encode("utf-8") # '<p>Sacr\xc3\xa9 bleu!</p>' +Any characters that can't be represented in your chosen encoding will +be converted into numeric XML entity references. For instance, here's +a document that includes the Unicode character SNOWMAN:: + + markup = u"<b>\N{SNOWMAN}</b>" + snowman_soup = BeautifulSoup(markup) + tag = snowman_soup.b + +The SNOWMAN character can be part of a UTF-8 document (it looks like +☃), but there's no representation for that character in ISO-Latin-1 or +ASCII, so it's converted into "☃" for those encodings:: + + print(tag.encode("utf-8")) + # <b>☃</b> + + print tag.encode("latin-1") + # <b>☃</b> + + print tag.encode("ascii") + # <b>☃</b> + Unicode, Dammit --------------- |