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kovidgoyal · 07-23-2014, 10:20 AM

There is nothing special you need to so to set unicode values. unicode objects in python are not utf-8, they are either utf-16 or ucs-4 depending on compile time options.

Where are you getting u_genre from?

If you want to set a unicode value pass in a unicode string not a bytestring. That means,

Code:

if isintance(u_genre, bytes):
  u_genre = u_genre.decode('utf-8')

07-23-2014, 10:20 AM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,948 Karma: 29579516 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There is nothing special you need to so to set unicode values. unicode objects in python are not utf-8, they are either utf-16 or ucs-4 depending on compile time options. Where are you getting u_genre from? If you want to set a unicode value pass in a unicode string not a bytestring. That means, Code: if isintance(u_genre, bytes): u_genre = u_genre.decode('utf-8') Last edited by kovidgoyal; 07-23-2014 at 10:28 AM.