Using a Unicode format for Python's `time.strftime()`
- by Hosam Aly
I am trying to call Python's time.strftime() function using a Unicode format string:
u'%d\u200f/%m\u200f/%Y %H:%M:%S'
(\u200f is the "Right-To-Left Mark" (RLM).)
However, I am getting an exception that the RLM character cannot be encoded into ascii:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u200f' in position 2: ordinal…