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    <p>I am using BeautifulSoup to get an article off <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/net-us-foxconn-idUSBRE83004E20120401" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/01/net-us-foxconn-idUSBRE83004E20120401</a></p> <pre><code>url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/19/us-yahoo-korea-idUSBRE89I0EY20121019" source = urllib2.urlopen(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(source) </code></pre> <p>but receive the error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 107: invalid start byte</p> <p>I have tried to use soup.encode(['windows-1252','ascii','iso-8859']) but in the first place, the soup cannot even be created.</p> <p>Does anyone have any tips to share?</p> <p>The error traceback, if it helps:</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "&lt;pyshell#17&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt; parseReuters() File "C:\Users\name\Desktop\test.py", line 39, in parseReuters soup = BeautifulSoup(source) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", line 172, in __init__ self._feed() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bs4\__init__.py", line 185, in _feed self.builder.feed(self.markup) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bs4\builder\_lxml.py", line 195, in feed self.parser.close() File "parser.pxi", line 1209, in lxml.etree._FeedParser.close (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:90597) File "parsertarget.pxi", line 142, in lxml.etree._TargetParserContext._handleParseResult (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:99984) File "parsertarget.pxi", line 130, in lxml.etree._TargetParserContext._handleParseResult (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:99807) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 294, in lxml.etree._ExceptionContext._raise_if_stored (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:9383) File "saxparser.pxi", line 259, in lxml.etree._handleSaxData (src\lxml\lxml.etree.c:95945) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte </code></pre>
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    1. COInteresting, when I download that URL, the character at position 107 is a space (0x20). I don't see anything wrong with the data either (verified using `iconv`). Are you possibly hitting any proxy that manipulates the data or redirects you to another page?
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    2. COI'm not sure how to check if there's any proxy. Could you let me know how? Using chardet (which detects encoding), I found that the encoding was ascii. I had used BeautifulSoup on another site (esciencenews) and it worked fine.
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    3. COAt which statement do you get the error? Did you try printing `source` before passing it to beautiful soup?
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