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    <p>I've been fighting with this for an hour now. I'm parsing an XML-string with <code>iterparse</code>. However, the data is not encoded properly, and I am not the provider of it, so I can't fix the encoding.</p> <p>Here's the error I get:</p> <pre><code>lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: line 8167: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xEA 0x76 0x65 0x73 </code></pre> <p>How can I simply ignore this error and still continue on parsing? I don't mind, if one character is not saved properly, I just need the data.</p> <p>Here's what I've tried, all picked from internet:</p> <pre><code>data = data.encode('UTF-8','ignore') data = unicode(data,errors='ignore') data = unicode(data.strip(codecs.BOM_UTF8), 'utf-8', errors='ignore') </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong><br> I can't show the url, as it's a private API and involves my API key, but this is how I obtain the data:</p> <pre><code>ur = urlopen(url) data = ur.read() </code></pre> <p>The character that causes the problem is: <code>å</code>, I guess that <code>ä</code> &amp; <code>ö</code>, etc, would also break it.</p> <p>Here's the part where I try to parse it:</p> <pre><code>def fast_iter(context, func): for event, elem in context: func(elem) elem.clear() while elem.getprevious() is not None: del elem.getparent()[0] del context def process_element(elem): print elem.xpath('title/text( )') context = etree.iterparse(StringIO(data), tag='item') fast_iter(context, process_element) </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit 2:</strong><br> <a href="http://img.qo.fi/zlmb35.png" rel="nofollow">This</a> is what happens, when I try to parse it in PHP. Just to clarify, F***ing Åmål is a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150662/" rel="nofollow">drama movie</a> =D</p> <p>The file starts with <code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?&gt;</code></p> <p>Here's what I get from <code>print repr(data[offset-10:offset+60])</code>:</p> <pre><code>ence des r\xeaves, La&lt;/title&gt;\n\t\t&lt;year&gt;2006&lt;/year&gt;\n\t\t&lt;imdb&gt;0354899&lt;/imdb&gt;\n </code></pre>
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