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print region.text(): UnicodeEncodeError --- use uprint()

Asked by Cam

Hi. Pls Help.

I'm receiving error "UnicodeEncodeError ( 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2018' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) )"
when I run the code below:

I receive the error on line "print(text)".

    Settings.OcrTextRead = True
    reg=find(Pattern("1473260102302.png").targetOffset(-9,50))

    text = reg.text()
    print(text) ********I receive error here*******

    if "1080" in text:
        if "59.94" in text:
            print("it is 1080 and 59.94")
        else:
            print("Not 59.94")
    else:
        print("Not 1080")

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

apparently the returned text contains UTF-8/non-ASCII characters.

the normal print cannot be used in this case.

use
uprint(text)

instead.

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Cam (cfamili) said : 		#2

Thank you very much for quick response.
It worked but I also get extra lines.

Do you know how to get rid of the extra lines?

'-'-aacbH Forward ll'I—'CopyDL ---EXTRA LINE
Reference mode: 1080i 59.94
it is 1080 and 59.94

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Your question #385878 on Sikuli changed:
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RaiMan proposed the following answer:
apparently the returned text contains UTF-8/non-ASCII characters.

the normal print cannot be used in this case.

use
uprint(text)

instead.

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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#3

Sorry, but you have to live with the quirks of the current OCR implementation.

Make your experiments with the size and shape of the regions, where you want to get the text, until you get something, that you can live with.

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Cam (cfamili) said : 		#4

Ok that's ok. Thank you very much for your help!

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Hina (hina-amir) said : 		#5

for me it worked
uprint(reg2.text())