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Encoding error during saving of lyrics for an artist

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I tried fetching the lyrics of the french rapper Nekfeu and saving them in txt format but I got that error Traceback (most recent call last): File "lyrics_fetch.py", line 6, in <module> artist.save_lyrics(format = "txt") File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\lyricsgenius\artist.py", line 134, in save_lyrics lyrics_file.write(lyrics_to_write) File "D:\Anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\ufeff' in position 20121: character maps to <undefined>

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Created 5 years ago
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devspaceshipcommented, Apr 10, 2018

Yeah encoding errors seems to be a pain in the ass, I also had a problem with another artist where it couldn’t map ō so I decided to use an ugly but working solution for the moment, I simply replaced lyrics_file.write(lyrics_to_write) by print(lyrics_to_write) and copied and pasted from the console but I’ll try to think about a solution ( lyrics_file.write(lyrics_to_write.encode(encoding = 'utf-8', errors = 'ignore').decode(encoding = 'utf-8')) didn’t work either)

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johnwmillrcommented, Sep 8, 2018

Closed by #51. The encoding issues are sure to crop up again in the future though…