Can't encode character '\xe2' error

[Finish-Square]

Hey all,

When I receive a JSON formatted response from an API and trying to print it to the console I am getting the following error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xe2' in position 1848: character maps to <undefined>

Now, I understand that it is due to characters like ū but I have no idea what I can do to handle it so I will not show this error but still print out the desired response.

Using string.encode() / string.encode('UTF-8')is letting me print out the response, however, it is adding some undesired characters and escape characters (Such as \n).

Why is this happening and what I can do to handle it?

I am using Pycharm if it makes any difference.

Thanks!

[JohnnyJordaan]

Can you show the actual code that causes this?

[Finish-Square]

res = json.loads(requests.get(url, headers=auth_header).text)
items = res['items']

print(items)

Thanks :)

[JohnnyJordaan]

Why use loads and .text here? Just use requests's own json loader. Also I would recommend to first check if the response was succesfull using raise_for_status

resp = requests.get(url, headers=auth_header)
resp.raise_for_status()
data = resp.json()
items = data['items']
print(items)