I have a text file in Portuguese that I created using PHP, which contains sentences with the character "ê" (e with circumflex accent). I'm trying to read this file in Python, but I'm encountering issues specifically with the "ê" character. I have ensured that both the PHP file and Python script are using the UTF-8 encoding.
Python script work fine in terminal but when I call this python file from php exec() or shell_exec() function python could not read text file content properly and print this error:
'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xea' in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)
What could be causing this issue and how can I resolve it?
I have already tried the following steps:
- Saving the PHP file with UTF-8 encoding.
- Specifying the UTF-8 encoding explicitly when opening the file in Python.
- Verifying that the default encoding in Python is set to UTF-8.
operating system: Linux
Python default encoding: utf-8
text file content:
Se você tem 1 laranja e 1 limão faça esse delicioso bolo!
Python code:
filename = "newfile.txt"
with open(filename, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
# Read the first line of the text file
file_content = file.readline().strip()
print(file_content)
terminal print:
php file code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>read python</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$pythonScript = "read.py";
$command = "python3 " . $pythonScript;
$output = shell_exec($command);
echo $output;
?>
</body>
</html>
I appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to handle this issue. Thank you!
@MarkTolonen is right, terminal was not configured for UTF-8, I set local utf-8 in terminal before using exec() function in php, now that is working.
PHP code: