unicode error

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Works fine for a few seconds, then bombs out on my netbook:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pyview.py", line 52, in <module>
    print "%s %s" %(apbssid, lbss[bssid])
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 
18: ordinal not in range(128)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 10 Nov 2012 at 3:22

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made the offending string unicode by appending .encode("iso-8859-1") to it.  
New error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pyview.py", line 52, in <module>
    print ("%s %s" %(apbssid, lbss[bssid])).encode("iso-8859-1")
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 18-19: 
ordinal not in range(256)

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Nov 2012 at 3:25

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Obviously this stems from malformed packets (probably due to jumping channels 
in the middle of packet reception -- we need cutoff avoidance?)

Quick fix is to make the print statement .encode("utf-16")

You'll see some weird symbols but it'll at least output without crashing the 
terminal.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Nov 2012 at 3:29

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utf-8 works best.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Nov 2012 at 3:31

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implemented a semaphore system that is a waste of time since there are no 
collisions apparently.

I'll just properly encode the strings - simple is best.

Original comment by [email protected] on 10 Nov 2012 at 6:46