fpdf is giving UnicodeEncodeError

January 6, 2022

I am using fpdf python package to create a .pdf file.

This is my code below:

import fpdf
pdf = fpdf.FPDF(format='letter')  # pdf format
pdf.add_page()  # create new page
pdf.set_font("Arial", size=18)  # font and textsize
pdf.cell(200, 10, txt="An enhanced Interactive’ Python", ln=1, align="C")
pdf.output("test.pdf")

But it is giving me an error as:

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘latin-1’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u2019’ in position 74: ordinal not in range(256)

I am not sure why this is popping up when I want to save the pdf using pdf.output("test.pdf").

>Solution :

U+2019 is the fancy right single quotation mark, which you DO have in your string after the word "Interactive". I suspect you don’t really want that character at all.