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kovidgoyal · 12-27-2011, 04:31 AM

IIRC PIL requires UTF-8 encoded text. There's probably some double encoding going on somewhere. Try this instead:

text = title.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(title, unicode) else title

And also use

u'La Raz\xc3\xb3n' instead of u'La Razón'

12-27-2011, 04:31 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,195 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	IIRC PIL requires UTF-8 encoded text. There's probably some double encoding going on somewhere. Try this instead: text = title.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(title, unicode) else title And also use u'La Raz\xc3\xb3n' instead of u'La Razón' Last edited by kovidgoyal; 12-27-2011 at 04:34 AM.