[Biopython-dev] Unicode and encoding experts? Schäffer in BLAST XML

[Peter Cock]

Hello all,

Do any of you have first hand experience of unicode encoding
issues with XML parsing? I'm hoping for some help with this issue:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
313: ordinal not in range(128)

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/855

I believe this problem stems from how Alejandro Schäffer is
*sometimes* written in the BLAST XML output:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/855#issuecomment-226276235

Thanks,

Peter