Hi

 

 

What does the FME Logger specify as the character encoding if you output this feature before passing it on to the PythonCaller? Example:

 

 

Attribute(encoded: utf-8) : `test' has value `Français'

 

 

The solution will depend on how FME has recognized the character set of the attribute.

 

 

Also remember that you can specify the character set when creating the Shape reader, and it might be worth trying to set it to UTF-8:

 

 

 

 

David

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This was a good suggestion, but it didn't work for all of the strings in my input file. As well, I have DWG inputs which do not allow you to set the character encoding.

 

 

The solution that works is to use the encode() function of Python as in the code below. The function call:

 

 

encode("ascii","ignore")

 

...tells Python to convert the string to ASCII, and if there are errors, ignore them.

 

 

Here's the code that works for me:

 

def input(self, feature):

 

    lstAttributeName = feature.getAllAttributeNames()

 

    for attribute in lstAttributeName:

 

            try:

 

                value = feature.getAttribute(attribute).encode("ascii","ignore").strip()

 

            except Exception,e:

 

                # value must be a number so convert it to a string

 

                value = str(feature.getAttribute(attribute))

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