Unicode issues

[simonwjackson]

First off, thanks a million for writing this python wrapper!

Bare with me as I'm a bit of a python newbie.
I ran the following example from the README:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from gamesdb.api import API

gamesdb_api = API()

atari_platform = gamesdb_api.get_platform('22')
print atari_platform.name
print atari_platform.overview

and im getting the following unicode error

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position 794: ordinal not in range(128)

The only workaround i could manage was to use .encode('utf-8')
but this puts HTML special characters in the text.

...renamed "Atari 2600", after the unit's Atari ...

Am i missing a step here?

[jameserrico]

No worries. I'm pretty new myself -- there's already some code here that I would love to improve\do differently. Are you using Python 2.7 or 3? This was written under Python 2.7 and I know that strings are pretty different in Python 3. If that's not it I'll have a closer look.